In this Journal entry, we are asked our opinions base on the reading Elizabeth Browning’s sonnet. One of her main sonnet was called Sonnet 43. Elizabeth Browning discuss her feelings towards her love for this man that she recently met and she loved her at first sight. It was based on the pointers of Portuguese; which is another name to describe her and her husband love. She was somehow introduce to him by receiving a letter from him (Robert Browning). He wrote a letter to her by expressing his feelings and connections with her writings. He also wrote in the letter that he wanted to meet her one day. As soon as they met they both knew they had some type of love connection with the same outlook of things. At the same time, Robert Browning wanted to marry at first sight. …show more content…
I have encountered reading and watching several movies base on this topic, but I never knew anyone that did love someone for the wrong reasons. However, many of people that do love someone for the wrong reason normally do suffer the consequences after realizing that they only fell in love with the affection, instead of the actual genuine love. At the same time, many people that have their reason, because some may believe in love at first sight. Somehow, I do believe in love at first sight, but I also believe that it’s a process of getting to know someone before encountering any type of love or feeling before leading things on. I also think, Robert and Elizabeth fell in love for the right reasons and intentions, because they both felt a certain connection at first sight. Robert felt the love and connection when he first read her writings and he knew instantly that he loved her. Somehow he connected to her and felt everything that she was trying to set across and she was needing to find that love herself throughout her
The narrator has a negative view of himself and it rubs off on him before his initial meeting with Robert. The narrator clearly is was passionately in love with his wife early in their relationship and she clearly loved him. The narrator is very protective of her and no
Although, in the beginning of the story the Narrator was a little jealous of Robert. The relationship that the Narrators' wife shared with Robert was one that he had always longed for.
At the beginning of her collection of sonnets, she is incredibly skeptical, describing Robert’s declaration of love “Who by turns had flung/A shadow across me”. The imagery of a shadow conveys the dark image of death and depicts how Browning easily mistakes love as death. This is very much a result of the expectations bestowed upon her by her Father. Due to various injuries and illnesses, Browning had been classified as an invalid and her Father was therefore very protective of her. This protectiveness manifested itself as great disapproval towards romantic exploits, which clearly fed into her own expectations regarding love. As her relationship with Robert continues, she writes in Sonnet 32 that “perfect strains may float ... from instruments defaced”. The metaphor of defaced instruments represents her own insecurity regarding herself. However, now she is confident in Robert’s sincerity and love for her, describing his love through the extended metaphor of music. Her growth is evident, however it is still visible that expectations still make her doubt herself. However, Browning ends up breaking free of these expectations, writing “Beloved... Contrarious moods of men recoil away.” By using the metonymy of “Beloved” to refer to Robert it shows how she has developed in her love for him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Time does not bring relief,” also known as simply “Sonnet II”, explores the theme of a protagonist who cannot escape the memory of a loved who has left them in an ambiguous fashion. Millay disregards cliché that “time heals all wounds” as being a lie as the protagonist allows her grief and resurrected former feelings over the missing figure to control her actions after a year--”But last year’s bitter loving must remain /Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.” Throughout the year, the protagonist has longed for the loved one during the varied weather accompanied by the seasons. Regardless of the changing seasons, the subject cannot escape her dilemma. Not only does the central figure watch time go by, she refuses
In my survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets, I have found it difficult to sincerely regard any single sonnet as inferior. However, many of the themes could be regarded as rather trite. For example sonnet XCVII main idea is that with my love away I feel incomplete, sonnet XXIX says that only your love remembered makes life bearable, while sonnet XXXVIII makes the beloved the sole inspiration in the poet's life. These themes recycled in love songs and Hallmark cards, hardly original now, would hardly have been any newer in Elizabethan England. However the hackneyed themes of these sonnets is in a sense the source of their essence. These emotions, oftentimes difficult to adequately articulate, are shared by all that have loved, been loved, lusted or been hurt in a relationship. Still, it is certainly difficult to criticize Shakespeare's work as a whole. One would only show his ignorance if he were to argue against Shakespeare's sophisticated style.
Love is the ubiquitous force that drives all people in life. If people did not want, give, or receive love, they would never experience life because it is the force that completes a person. Although it often seems absent, people constantly strive for this ever-present force as a means of acceptance. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an influential poet who describes the necessity of love in her book of poems Sonnets from the Portuguese. In her poems, she writes about love based on her relationship with her husband – a relationship shared by a pure, passionate love. Browning centers her life and happiness around her husband and her love for him. This life and pure happiness is dependent on their love, and she expresses this outpouring and reliance of her love through her poetry. She uses imaginative literary devices to strengthen her argument for the necessity of love in one’s life. The necessity of love is a major theme in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” and “Sonnet 29.”
Known as the leader in classical poetry and drama, English writer William Shakespeare, captures the passion and emotions that the romance and depths of the human heart experiences in life. This is especially shown in his vast collection of sonnets which exemplified the “carpe diem” ideology of the period, and the love that one can have for another. Two of the most famous of Shakespeare’s works, Sonnet 55 [Not Marble, nor the gilded monuments] and sonnet 116 [Let me not to the marriage of true minds], are no exception to this theme in poetry. Both of these sonnets exemplify the love that the narrator has for a mistress in his life, and how he defines his love for them. Throughout both poems, Shakespeare conveys his purpose through the content, the overall theme of love and its permanence, and the form and structure in which the sonnets are written that can sometimes break the traditional rules.
The body-soul dichotomy was a fairly common theme that was debated literarily from the middle ages to the Elizabethan period. Unbeknownst to many people William Shakespeare on multiple occasions referenced it. Of the literary works he composed, sonnet 146 is one of the most pronounced in its own right while being debated on multiple levels. It has such been correlated with others of his prior written sonnets and plays, sung as a hymn, recited at funerals, and compared against many pages and passages of the bible spanning from Genesis to Revelations but most likely viewed in terms of the Anglican Church. The Shakespeare Quarterly is a well-known journal that centers on all things Shakespearian. In 1976, Michael West, a writer and professor at the University of Pittsburg, went into great detail on this topic discussing Francis Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody “Tarquins in Lucrece” and Barbabe Googe’s translation of Paligenius’s “Zodiacus Vitae” all as a backdrop to solidify this argument that Shakespeare was a Christian writing on this subject (West, 111-116). During this essay, West went in belief was that sonnet 146, to be read correctly, must be viewed more from a Christian standpoint. His basis for this is that Shakespeare held that there is an ongoing conflict for which the body is attempting to subject the soul. Upon death though, the soul is victorious because, even though it goes without saying, the worms eat the body and loose the soul to be free (116).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's "Sonnet XLIII" speaks of her love for her husband, Richard Browning, with rich and deeply insightful comparisons to many different intangible forms. These forms—from the soul to the afterlife—intensify the extent of her love, and because of this, upon first reading the sonnet, it is easy to be impressed and utterly overwhelmed by the descriptors of her love. However, when looking past this first reading, the sonnet is in fact quite ungraspable for readers, such as myself, who have not experienced what Browning has for her husband. As a result, the visual imagery, although descriptive, is difficult to visualize, because
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 32” from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a reflection of the speaker’s relationship with her suitor, and how she expresses her doubt at the abruptness of the courtship, along with her worthiness for such affection. Through the progression of the poem the speaker portrays apprehension at the swift manner of their infatuation and skepticism over her significance towards her admirer, revealing the speaker’s remorseful undertone of dubious thoughts towards her relationship.
A sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines, following one of several set of rhyme-schemes. Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications, but the two characteristic sonnet types are the Italian type (Petrarchan) and the English type (Shakespearean). Shakespeare is still nowadays seen as in idol in English literature. No one can read one of his works and be left indifferent. His way of writing is truly fascinating. His sonnets, which are his most popular work, reflect several strong themes. Several arguments attempt to find the full content of those themes.
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In Elizabeth Browning’s poem ‘Sonnet 43’, Browning explores the concept of love through her sonnet in a first person narrative, revealing the intense love she feels for her beloved, a love which she does not posses in a materialistic manner, rather she takes it as a eternal feeling, which she values dearly, through listing the different ways she loves her beloved.
In “Sonnet 43,” Browning wrote a deeply committed poem describing her love for her husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Here, she writes in a Petrarchan sonnet, traditionally about an unattainable love following the styles of Francesco Petrarca. This may be partly true in Browning’s case; at the time she wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese, Browning was in courtship with Robert and the love had not yet been consummated into marriage. But nevertheless, the sonnet serves as an excellent ...