Elizabeth Barrett Browning Essays

Christina Rossetti was a strong, passionate poet who put her deepest feelings of love and romance into her writing. Rossetti was born in London but her family were originally from Italy. Christina was the fourth and youngest child of Gabriele and Frances Rossetti. Both of Rossetti’s parents were especially poetic and enjoyed exploring the modern…

When I first started this unit on ‘love’ I thought it was going to be dreary as love poems are not a category, which interest me, and I don’t take pleasure in doing work like this, as it can be embarrassing. ‘Love’ is about caring and liking someone; like a boyfriend would care for his…

The two poems are both in the Italian sonnet form, which for many years has provided a tight structure in which poets can explore their ideas. The two poems have both similarities and differences. “How do I love thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, explores the ideas of the greatness of love, yet “Remember” by Christina…

The three poems, Remember by Christina Rossetti; How Do I love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and When We Two Parted by Lord Byron, each explore love and loss in their own unique ways. Remember is, as expected from the title, a solemn lament which is a farewell sonnet to her treasured one. How Do…

“To his Coy Mistress”, By Andrew Marvell, “Sonnet”, By Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “Sonnet 138”, By William Shakespeare, these group of poems reflect both the negative and positive aspects of love. How do the poets you have studied use language and structural choices to affect the readers perceptions of what love is? The traditional stereotypical…

  This bestial image places Aurora outside of the social norm and implies patriarchy’s view of the alterity of the ‘woman artist’. In addition, the image of the horse is a very sensual image. In Jungian psychoanalytic symbolism, the horse is linked with human sexuality. It suggests that women who take up the phallic pen…