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    Browning used repetition in her poem The Cry of the Children to show the pain‚ and suffering that children had to go through as they were forced to work. She was in distraught about the sad faces of the children who were forced to work in mines and factories‚ and decided to make a political point by writing The Cry of the Children against the enslavement of children. She uses repetition to get the thoughts in the mind of the reader to point out the signs in order to stop the enslavement of children

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    Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic‚ Jay Gatsby‚ is revealed to the reader throughout the novel‚ creating a sense of mystery around his character‚ his past and his future. The quasi - fantastical pictorial of the same name‚ by Greenberg‚ also follows this reveal‚ portraying Gatsby’s world and evoking a lingering curiosity. Initially‚ in both novel and graphic novel‚ the reader is set up to expect the worst. In the introduction of the novel by Fitzgerald‚ Nick states ‘ No- Gatsby turned out alright in the end;

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    events of the time. Without a greater knowledge of the past‚ present and wider world‚ we often accept the two dimensional thoughts and perspectives of the time we inhabit. We can only fully reveal the value of experiences by comparing their differences. ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are a series of Petrarchan sonnets conveying love hope and morality. Composed in 1845 to 1846 England and published in 1850‚ the contextual integrity of the sonnets reflect the traditional

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    A Year’s Spinning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is telling a story from the point of view of a woman who tells of the struggles she had endured over the course of a year. The poem closely ties in with the view of women during the time-period. During this time period women were primarily homemakers and any unmarried women outside of the ideal age of marriage with no children were considered to be spinsters. In this poem‚ a woman is doing her spinning on the porch and eventually a man stops

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    When reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "Sonnet 32" I noticed that this was her only sonnet of the four in Sonnets From the Portuguese that wasn’t written directly for another person. It seems as if she was writing this sonnet in a diary for herself. This makes me believe that during the time of writing this sonnet the speaker‚ or Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ had some internal conflict over the relationship she was in at the time and was confiding in her own secrecy to try to work out her controversial

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    Elizabeth Barret-Browning’s ’Sonnets from the Portuguese’ and F. Scott. Fitzgerald’s ’The Great Gatsby’ both reflect‚ in abstract style and varying contexts and elements‚ the experience of idealised love‚ hope and mortality. The elements employed by Barret-Browning and Fitzgerald‚ differ in their depictions of these themes through various literary devices‚ two of which are ’points of view’ and ’motifs/symbols’. Barret-Browning’s sonnet sequence illustrates a complex evolution of emotions as the poet

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    Sonnet Summary line by line Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye 1. Do not stand at my grave and weep 2. I am not there; 3. I do not sleep. It is like the persona is someone who has passed away and is speaking to her loved ones. She doesn’t feel it is right for them to stand and weep at her grave because it is just a body and not her anymore and even though she is dead and buried her spirit lives on. She hasn’t left completely 4. I am a thousand winds that blow‚ 5. I am the

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    metaphors‚ similes‚ personification‚ allusion‚ etc. The poems‚ Sonnet 29 written by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ and Sonnet 43 written by Elizabeth Barret Browning‚ are both very different from each other as they both are conveying different messages. Sonnet 29 talks about the reality of love which is it is difficult to stick with one person‚ where as Sonnet 43 talks about how love is necessity in life and how much you love it. Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 29 are very different from each other in terms of the theme

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Victorian Context Traditional social structure • Different social classes can be (and were by the classes themselves) distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power‚ authority‚ wealth‚ working and living conditions‚ life-styles‚ life-span‚ education‚ religion‚ and culture. Working class – physical labour • Poor living and work conditions • Did not follow rules of courtships • Did not participate in social entertainment • Had very little chance for

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    Now‚ these sonnets are not modern. In fact they are very old with the dating of the sonnets going back to the mid 1800’s‚ a time where those social oddities were not acceptable at all. Within one of her sonnetsSonnet 22‚ I felt an interesting glow to the poem. A glow that suggests the sonnet was written through the influences of one of the traditional social oddities. It made me question myself‚ "Is this sonnet actually suggesting a love that wasn’t "acceptable" in it’s time or is this just

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