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- Her humane and liberal point of view manifests itself in her poems aimed at redressing many forms of social injustice, such as the slave trade in America, the labor of children in the mines and the mills of England, the oppression of the Italian people by the Austrians, and the restrictions forced upon women in 19th-century society.
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In this long narrative poem Barrett Browning has dealt with some of the major social problems of her age. In Victorian England an educated woman with unusual talents had almost no opportunity to make use of her skills in a world that was dominated by men.
- My Heart and I
My Heart and I - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poetry...
- Love
Love - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poetry Foundation
- The Cry of The Children
Among all female poets of the English-speaking world in the...
- Mother and Poet
Mother and Poet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poetry...
- Past and Future
Past and Future - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poetry...
- My Heart and I
Apr 29, 2024 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born March 6, 1806, near Durham, Durham county, England—died June 29, 1861, Florence, Italy) was an English poet whose reputation rests chiefly upon her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh, the latter now considered an early feminist text. Her husband was Robert Browning.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This study attempts to explore the social protest and elements of socio-political reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning political poetry, adopting content literary analysis, to scrutinize and trace the major elements of reformation portrayed in her poems.
- Simon Avery
So while Barrett Browning endorses, even preaches, Swedenborgian principles about love as that which 'makes heaven' in Aurora Leigh, she constantly casts these 'truths' within the social and political contexts that bear on women's lives.
Browning’s use of repetition and rhetorical questions throughout the poem emphasizes the urgency of the children’s cries and the need for action. Overall, “The Cry of the Children” is a powerful commentary on the social and economic injustices of Victorian England and a call to action for change.
Al'ter a further study ot existing social problems, Mrs. Browning wrete about the moral effects of poverty on the home - drink, cruelty, immorality, and hate.
‘A Curse for a Nation’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a poignant critique of societal injustices and moral decay. Through varied stanza structures and rhyming schemes, Browning highlights the hypocrisy, apathy, and complicity of a nation in perpetuating oppression and wrongdoing.
