Comparing The Poems 'Laus Veneris And The Leper'

Algernon Charles Swinburne a great poet from England known for expressing his ideas of writing and suggestive metaphors to his readers, but keeps the idea of beauty and love through the Victorian era and with medieval writing theme. “A braggart in matters of vice, who had done everything he could to convince his fellow citizens of his homosexuality and bestiality without being in the slightest degree a homosexual or a bestializer.” (Oscar Wilde on Swinburne)
Swinburne’s work was written during the Victorian era named after then reigning queen of England at the time Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria till this day is still the longest running monarch, from the age of eighteen to sixty-eight. The Victorian Era had a great population growth which led to many lower class individuals without jobs or competing for them. Victorian marriage was very important to the bride and they were taught at a young age that taking
The narrator in “The Leper” falls in love with a woman who doesn’t want him and she ends up catching leprosy from the man she is with. So the main character finds it as his duty to take her away and take care of her. While he is taking care of her, he rapes the woman multiple times because it is something that god forbids he does, but thinks that it must be done. When the woman he loves dies, he realizes he should have never kissed her and that she would never love him and never did because she only had eyes for the other man. And he asks god why is god so angry at him and blames what he did on gods anger. So he knows he sins, but thinks it isn’t his