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Victorian Poetry
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undergraduate degree Victorian Literature Mind Map on Victorian Poetry, created by April Smyth on 01/04/2015.
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victorian poetry
poetry
english literature
literature
victorian
victorian literature
undergraduate degree
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April Smyth
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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
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