Victorian+Period


 * The Victorian Period (1832-1901) and its Literature
 * The Victorian Period took place during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) over Britain, the most powerful nation in the world at this time. Victorian societies are notorious for their excessively rigid code of ethics.
 * Majors Ideas
 * Confidence in society in the beginning of this era; drastic social reform towards the end
 * A woman's place was in the home
 * Glorification of imperialism
 * Industrialism
 * Economic success
 * Crime
 * human trafficking of teenagers
 * child labor
 * Limited class mobility
 * middle class rises when reform takes place
 * Large schism between social classes
 * Increase in universal education
 * Reading Material and literacy
 * Major Authors
 * Lewis Caroll
 * Alice in Wonderland
 * Through the Looking-Glass
 * Charles Dickens
 * Great Expectations
 * Oliver Twist
 * A Tale of Two Cities
 * Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * The White Man's Burden
 * The Jungle Book
 * H.G. Wells
 * The Time Machine
 * Oscar Wilde
 * The Picture of Dorian Grey
 * Emily Bronte
 * Wuthering Heights
 * Charles Darwin
 * Karl Marx
 * Bronte Sisters
 * Yeats
 * Tennyson
 * Browning
 * Matthew Arnold
 * He bridges Victorian and modernist poetry

SONNET #43, FROM THE PORTUGUESE By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!---I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Browning forges the voice of an emotionally invested lover with her use of repetition, parallelism, polysyndeton, and evocative imagery. Browning's speaker makes sure that the object of his or her affection understands that, regardless of whatever trials he or she may experience, the love for the recipient of the sonnet will not ebb or dwindle. away. Parallelism in "Sonnet #43" shows the speaker's love, like a man humbly working in adherence with his moral principles, is a righteous endeavor and he or she treats it as such. The speaker utilizes polsyndeton for the sonnet's recipient to slow down, reflect, and absorb the extent of the love that he/she/it receives from the speaker. The speakers tone of absolute devotion, in conjunction with abstract metaphors, creates imagery of being; it is as if the speaker's affinity transcends enamorment and borders on idol worship.

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