1. In the sonnet, “Sonnets From the Portuguese” we see one of the most famous lines, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” This past of the sonnet is specifically about love, do you think it shows a vulnerability of the speaker or do you not see this kind of love to be vulnerability?
2. In the Aurora Leigh books is there a high amount of feminism? What ideas can you pull straight from the text to support the idea of feminism or a feminist movement?
1. In the opening stanza of "Aurora Leigh," Elizabeth Barrett Browning says "I who have written much in prose and verse/For others' uses, will write now for mine..." Do you think poets usually write for other people? Do you think Browning holds true to this ideal in "Aurora Leigh"?
2. The second stanza begins with "I, writing thus, am still what men call young." Does Browning's use of the word 'men' carry any significant connotations? Why would she choose 'men' over a word like 'others' or 'people'?
1. Although Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh are often considered feminist works,they also rely on intimate relationships. Does including the marriage plot detract from Bronte and Browning's "feminist" statements? Why or why not?
1. In V. of Browning’s poem, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, she discusses the fact that God has made dark things in which people take delight in them. The dark things that God has made make these people happy. What relation, if any, does this stanza have with the rest of the poem? Is she trying to imply the fact that maybe she is part of what dark things God has made in order to make people happy?
2. In XIII of The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, what idea is Browning contrasting and why might it be significant? (has to do with the sun)
1.In Browning's poem "Sonnets From the Portuguese" she writes in the last stanza "I shall but love thee better after death" do you believe she writes this because she is speaking of her undying love for Portugal or is there another meaning?
2.In Borwning's poem "A Curse for a Nation" she writes "my heart it sore for my own land's sins: for little feet Of children bleeding along the street" is this a parallel to Portugal, and why does she write about different areas quite often? (Is it because she grew up in a land of sins.. etc.)
1) After reading E.B.Browning's "Sonnets From the Portuguese" it is clear that in the last stanza she is talking about love. Do you think that she is referring to the love of the nation or about someone more specific? How do you come to that conclusion?
2) How does E.B. Browning's "A Curse for a Nation" compare with that of "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"? Do you think Browning was trying to make some kind of statement on freedom? why or why not?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Questions
1. In the sonnet, “Sonnets From the Portuguese” we see one of the most famous lines, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” This past of the sonnet is specifically about love, do you think it shows a vulnerability of the speaker or do you not see this kind of love to be vulnerability?
2. In the Aurora Leigh books is there a high amount of feminism? What ideas can you pull straight from the text to support the idea of feminism or a feminist movement?
1. In the opening stanza of "Aurora Leigh," Elizabeth Barrett Browning says "I who have written much in prose and verse/For others' uses, will write now for mine..." Do you think poets usually write for other people? Do you think Browning holds true to this ideal in "Aurora Leigh"?
2. The second stanza begins with "I, writing thus, am still what men call young." Does Browning's use of the word 'men' carry any significant connotations? Why would she choose 'men' over a word like 'others' or 'people'?
1. Although Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh are often considered feminist works,they also rely on intimate relationships. Does including the marriage plot detract from Bronte and Browning's "feminist" statements? Why or why not?
thanks, folks. we didn't want to see those man-tears. Not even E.B.B. would want that.
I chose to talk about Barrett Browning's overall style rather than specific parts of her poems.
1.Do you see any similarities in the writing of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning? What about her and Alfred Tennyson?
2.Do you think that Elizabeth Barrett Browning seems to follow Matthew Arnold’s or John Stuart Mill’s idea of poetry? How so?
1. In V. of Browning’s poem, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, she discusses the fact that God has made dark things in which people take delight in them. The dark things that God has made make these people happy. What relation, if any, does this stanza have with the rest of the poem? Is she trying to imply the fact that maybe she is part of what dark things God has made in order to make people happy?
2. In XIII of The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, what idea is Browning contrasting and why might it be significant? (has to do with the sun)
1.In Browning's poem "Sonnets From the Portuguese" she writes in the last stanza "I shall but love thee better after death" do you believe she writes this because she is speaking of her undying love for Portugal or is there another meaning?
2.In Borwning's poem "A Curse for a Nation" she writes "my heart it sore for my own land's sins: for little feet Of children bleeding along the street" is this a parallel to Portugal, and why does she write about different areas quite often? (Is it because she grew up in a land of sins.. etc.)
1) After reading E.B.Browning's "Sonnets From the Portuguese" it is clear that in the last stanza she is talking about love. Do you think that she is referring to the love of the nation or about someone more specific? How do you come to that conclusion?
2) How does E.B. Browning's "A Curse for a Nation" compare with that of "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"? Do you think Browning was trying to make some kind of statement on freedom? why or why not?
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