How Did Elizabeth Barrett Browning Changed In The Cry Of The Children

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a talented writer and over the years her stories and poems has not changed. Including the poem ‘The Cry of the Children’ but yet from now and then everyone’s views on the poem has changed in different ways such as the sentimental values and the religious views. Alethea Hayter, a modern critic, said she found that the poem was way too religious for the modern audience. Angela Leighton said after she read it she would think that the modern audience would see it as “propagandist ically tear-jerking poem” (Henry). Elizabeth Barrett Browning, while being one of the more talented victorian poets, wrote a poem ‘The Cry of the Children’ that modern critics do not really agree with apposed to critics from earlier times. What in the poem is looked at so differently that we now have disagreements. Taplin said a little something about her desire, “In the face of her desire to make her contemporaries think and act in response to the pressing problems of her day, Barrett Browning's use of passionate feeling, religion, and other aspects of sentimentality seems entirely appropriate”. What Taplin was basically saying was that Browning wrote about things that was going on in her everyday life, but the fact that people back then was just about going through the same thing that she was going through at that time …show more content…

“One that values effective, gripping persuasion and relies on overt emotional, even sensational, expression and religious engagement--is applied to "The Cry of the Children" and other sentimental verses in poems” (Byrd). Lots of things that Browning valued were in her poems because those are the things that she cared about the most and her writing was mostly about things that were closest to her heart. Obviously it was a little easier for her to write about things she loved, because it is a little easier for everyone to write about things they know and

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