Robert Browning, one of the most talented poets of the Victorian period, is famous especially for his dramatic monologues. Often these long poems deal with such issues as love, death, and faith. Much of his work is directly reflective of his life and of those ... conflicts in his spiritual and religious future. In 1849, Robert Browning's mother died. One year later he published two of his less-famous poems, "Christmas Eve" and "Easter Day". These poems, due to their ambiguity, were neither extremely popular, nor critically praised. The two voices in Easter Day, the more powerful of the two ......

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• Grade Level: High School

... allusions in them, some faithful and some agnostic. Nicholas Tredell writes, "Both her more than one thousand surviving letters and her 1,775 poems contain wildly disparate views of deity; hers was that religion that doubts as fervently as it believes." Emily never found religion, other than ... Emily's early life, "The joy that Dickinson took in faith at that early age gave way in young adulthood to doubt, which her poems later absorbed as ambiguity and contradiction. In 1847-48, Dickinson underwent a year of religious instruction at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, but ... to salva...

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A Burning Inferno We have read many poems and gruesome stories about women and men in the captivity of the Indians or just Puritan life in general and the view of the world of that time. Puritans have a ... became prisoners of the Indians. She was forced to witness the death of one of her children among other disturbing scenes. Her narrative was published then soon after it became famous by giving us "pictures of native American life" (216). This "picture" we construe is "spiritual as well as physical" (216). She wrote exactly how she felt at the time she ... struggles. For instance, some ...

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• Grade Level: High School