Soliliquy of Poetry
Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning and Sonnets from the Portuguese: Number 43 by Browning's wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning are as opposite from eachother as two poems can be. Both are written in different styles and both poems have completely opposite tones. However, they do share some similarities as well. Both poems are presented as lists. Sonnets from the Portuguese: Number 43 is a list of reasons why the speaker loves the subject of the poem while Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister is a list of reasons why the speaker despises the subject. These two poems are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum pertaining to meaning and reason. Sonnets from the Portuguese: Number 43 is a narrative of pure and complete blind love, while Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister is a narrative of blind rage and pure hatred. Both poems convey the two most primitive and raw emotions in the human psyche: love and hate. These emotions are true and uncontrollable by the people who feel them. Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister is a poem of immense hatred and rage. The speaker is a bitter and spiteful friar who focuses his anger and frus
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; Sonnets from the Portugeuse: Number 43 is a poem of immense love and devotion. The speaker is most likely female because it is known that Browning wrote this sonnet for her husband Robert. Therefore, the speaker is a mirror-imaged persona of herself. The "sonnet" is a poetic form that dates back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Italy. Sonnet comes from the Italian word sonneto which means "little song". If there ever was a word to describe Sonnets from the Portugeuse: Number 43, little song would be it. When read aloud, the words of the poem flow musically off the tongue. The speaker begins by stating a question (How do I love thee?) and then continues by introducing a list (Let me count the ways) The speaker then, literally, counts the ways in which she loves the subject of the poem. She starts by stating that she loves the subject in all ways and directions her soul can reach. The love that she feels consumes her body as a whole. Sonnets from the Portugeuse: Number 43 relates a love pure and strong, yet described in understated tones, as evidenced by these lines: The spea
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