Possible By Anna Letitia Barbauld Analysis

The “Romantic Poets and Their Successors” section contains a number of overtly political poems. Select two or three of these poems, and describe who the audience is for each poem, what the poet hopes to gain from the audience, and what rhetorical strategies are used to affect the audience.

To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible by Anna Lætitia Barbauld In Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible is full of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming birth child. On the surface it appears that the poet is talking directly to the unborn child. Thus, it would seem that the poem's intended audience is the unborn baby. On the surface, the poem seems very
If this story had originated from an oral tale one could chalk this up to the fact that most of these tales include scenes of sexual and physical violence because they were originally entertainment for a whole village. Maybe that is the type of feeling Rossetti was trying to give in her story. However, it's hard to say for certain what Rossetti was trying to convey. There are many theories on what she was using this story as a metaphor for. One theory that of sisterhood and feminism. Sisterhood and was very important to Rossetti, who worked with "fallen women" at the St. Mary Magdalene. Perhaps she hoped that this poem, would inspire even fallen women to seek the path to redemption, leaving their past indiscretions behind. Another theory is that Laura's temptation to eat the goblin fruit is actually metaphor for sex, or drugs. There is no exact way to look at it, and maybe that was Rosetti's intention. However, in all of these theories, there seems to be one overlapping theme,