Robert Browning's 1842 poem My Last Duchess influenced by the strict roles in relationships of the Victorian Era and patriarchal society, tells a story of a young man's unhelpful love. ... Through engaging with the poem audiences come to a heightened knowledge of the role of context in shaping texts. ... The Victorian age had a great impact on this poem as the series of rhyming couplets "Then all smiles stopped together. ... The concept of the objectification of women endures throughout the poem as the persona further objectifies and sexualizes the Duchess. ... Through engaging...

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In my paper, I will use these two poems to explain a number of strategies that had utilization by the Victorians to treat women and their sexuality. ... In the poem, Tennyson utilizes both the exterior and interior space to illustrate the idea of an isolated woman. ... In various ways, the poem "The Lady of Shalott" emphasized on the idea of the restrained woman in the Victorian Age. Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the woman character, Tennyson places emphasis on the natural surroundings of the poem. ... Although Tennyson places the sett...

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However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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I have chosen to discuss the poem called "Ulysses- by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson where I will be discussing the ways in which the poem "Ulysses- addresses preoccupations of the Victorian period. Through my analysis of the poem, I hope to acquire a well grounded and thorough understanding of the poem in-turn being able to understand how the Victorian period dominated and engrossed the mind of Alfred Lord Tennyson in such a way that he was inspired to write such original verse. Due to the Victorian era having such a large influence on Tennyson's writings, it can be identified throug...

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1. How effectively does Possession by A.S Byatt reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the time in which it was composed? The year 1990 saw the publication of A.S Byatt's Possession-A Romance. Composed during a time where the dominant discourse in literature, academia, architec...

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The Victorian Period (1870 v/s 1900) The Victorian age can be described as the age of transition, which by definition has a dual aspect when change is revolutionary: destruction and reconstruction. The Victorians recognised that they were breaking down the systems of: Christian orthodoxy under the rule of the church, civil government under the rule of the king and nobility, the social structure of fixed classes, each with its recognised rights and duties and the economic organisation. That was "the old European system of dominant ideas and facts" which Arnold saw dissolving in the 19th Centu...

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