Emily Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning :: Biography Biographies Essays

Emily Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning As I looked through the literary works we give covered this term I noticed that there were only cardinal tender females we have studied that seem to play a strong part in the development of British Literature. Emily Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning were strong, influential figures in the literary world. Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights sewer be credited with the title of the first romantic novel of its age and her poetry was also redefining the poetry of the era. Unintentionally, I believe, Emily intend a new standard for writing. Her use of nature, an undefined hero and heroine, the strange structure of narrators, and her portrayal of the supernatural powers within the plot all add together to her literary groundbreaking, trend setting style. Her poetry is also unique in that it has a personal flair not typically seen in earlier poets. It is a very personal reflection of what she is enduring at the moment. That i nterpretation, however, is not entirely clear without the historical context. A secondary part, a little while, The noisy crowd are barred away I cigaret sing and I can smile A little while Ive a holyday (WH 296) could be interpreted as any number of things without the reviewer being fully aware that at this point in her deportment Bronte was a trapped in a job she hated off the beaten track(predicate) from her beloved home and family. She was a governess. In that light it makes her poem makes unload sense she needed to get away from the children she was responsible for. Several of her early(a) poems were also born of this time in her life and reflected her homesickness. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning too wrote astir(predicate) her life but I saw her work as much direct and open than that of Bronte. Without the historical knowledge of Brontes life at the time of her writing her poems are beautiful but the reader cannot fully prize the emotive elements behind the w ords. Barrett-Brownings works were much clearer as to their intent and scour without a working knowledge of her relationship with Robert Browning the reader can fully appreciate the powerful dramatic emotions flowing through her words. Her around famous sonnet How do I love thee?