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    to draw attention to various issues and challenge the barriers that were set before them. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a significant poet of the English Victorian Period, was greatly influenced as a writer by her family background, loving marriage, and political and social views. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born to a wealthy family on March 6, 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. As a child, Browning was remarkably well-off because her father owned sugar plantations in Jamaica and when she

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    fortune was made, he retired back to his homeland Stratford. He died on April 23, 1616. Among all women poets of nineteenth century, none has held higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her views than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Born on March 6, 1806, she was the eldest child of a prosperous merchant family who owned a large estate in Herefordshire, England. At an early age, she devoted herself to poetry and a large part of her education was self-taught. Amazingly

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    Discontent by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Explication The sonnet “Discontent” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning pinpoints two separate types of unhappiness, discontent led by a need to show unhappiness despite superficial subject matter, and a quiet pain that with time distances one from discontent and leads to submission to the will of God and the world. Browning examines these differences throughout the poem and emphasizes the meaninglessness of discontent and the distance brought by pain to show why

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    Poet: Elizabeth Browning In 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England, a new poet of the Romantic movement was born. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born to an over controlling father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, and a late mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett. Elizabeth’s parents provided her and her ten younger siblings with very sophisticated lives. Their estate, “Hope End,” was described by a local newspaper as "adapted for the accommodation of a nobleman or family of the first distinction"(Elizabeth Barrett

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    because fathers were not able to provide on their own. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet who was

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    With only a pen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to promoted the liberation of forgotten people. As a result of a life filled with oppression by a misogynistic society surrounding her, Browning became a strong advocate for the emancipation of all people. Throughout her poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning embodies the iconic 19th century emancipated female. Today, Browning continues to be one of the most beloved British poets of the Romantic Movement. Feminism advocates women’s rights based on the equality

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    Life has many ups and downs; all of which form obstacles that shape us into what we’re destined to be. For instance, the prestigious an eminent English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning firsthand experienced this. For example she faced illness, wrong and right in both political and religious views, most of all infatuation for another. As a result, of the occurrences faced she had real context towards her literary work. The prosperous woman was never acquainted with poverty. Since the beginning

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    Within both poems, it is clear that both writers view the subject of love differently. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a love poem written in the form of a sonnet. It is about Browning’s intense love for her husband to be, Robert Browning. The overall message of Valentine is how Duffy challenges society’s cliche ideas of love and Valentine’s Day and that one must experience being in a relationship to realise that society has greatly sold us into thinking that the cliche ideas of love

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    The poem, Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is basically about affection. It's a very romantic poem, but I think what Elizabeth is trying to tell us the reader about the question she wrote in the first line she wrote "How do I love thee?" (Line 1). The question seems like a rhetorical question how we as the readers can be able to answer that question when it’s a tricky question. Yet, the line "Let me count my ways" (Line 1) make sense to "How do I love thee?" (Line 1) saying how she loves whoever

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    Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is a classic love story written to explain how she feels about love. How Do I Love Thee, has a variety of interpretations, a multitude of symbols, follows an iambic pentameter, and tells the reader a story. Browning does all of this in a fourteen-line sonnet that she wrote for her beloved husband. To understand this, the reader has to make interpretations on their own. Browning writes her poetry in a way that allows the reader to see what they choose to

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