Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Victorian Poetry
- The Romantics, the Victorians and the inheritance of Loss
- Romantic poetry
- last
decades of
eighteenth
century
- difficult for
Victorian
poets to
follow
- Wordsworth,
Shelley, Keats
- poetry as
powerful/transcendent
- poet as
prophet
- masculine
model of
poetry
- focus on individual creative genius
- Lost ideal for Victorian Poets
- writing in face of child labour or
other various problems of industrial
capitalism
- power
handed over
to
businessmen
and politicians
- world complex and
contradictory
- poetic voice
fragmented and
uncertain
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- retained belief in the
transcendent power of
art
- Emily Bronte
- 'Shall Earth no more inspire thee'
- voiced by
a force of
nature
- asks its
unspeaking
interlocutor
- Shall Earth no more inspire thee,/ Thou
lonely dreamer now?/ Since passion
may not fire thee/Shall nature cease to
bow?
- "dreamer"
- poet figure
- lonely and
uninspired
- simple rhyming structure abab
- basic
profundity of
the questions
asked
- unsophisticated word choice
- force of nature striving
to reign its lost status
- guide
- guardian
- inspiration
- Thy mind is ever moving/In
regions dark to thee;/Recall its
useless roving -/Come back and
dwell with me