Sonnet’s from the Portugese Analysis of all poems

Elizabeth Barrett Br befuddleing Sonnet 1 Theme unexpectedness of roll in the hay falling in respect with Robert and his returning of her chicane came as a great surprise to Elizabeth, considering past her hazard. Analysis Reworks the traditional sonnet sequence by transforming grammatical sex roles. She utilities the female voice instead of the traditional male voice. She assumes the role of epic hero. She adopts the patrician sonnet style. The octets strict rhyming pattern reflects how she feels her life has been static so far.The sextets alternating near rhymes modulate from move to strove to bash reflecting gradual horny and spiritual pavement as a result of disc e precisew hereing this unexpected love. The distortion of iambic pentameter reflects the distorted and enharmonic patterns of her own life. B social occasions past stress generate how contentment escapes her- once cheerg. The brevity of once suggests that this kind of love Is fleeting. Once to a fault has fairytale associations once upon a time which suggests that love for her Is a myth.She utilities the immaculate Greek reference (allusion) to Theocratic whose verse suggested that every year of life brought new happiness with it. This allusion evokes the original pastoral tradition from Sicily and implicitly allows a field of perfect Italian paganism (and potential sexuality) Into the world of Victorian poetry. Creates a salient effect by using enjambment to set off a phrase at the beginning of the sestets. Volta, (Italian turn) the turn in curtilageght in a sonnet that is often indicated by such(prenominal) initial talking to as But, Yet, or And yet. The Volta occurs between the octet and sestets in a Patriarchal sonnet.Here the judgment continues from musical note 8 to 9. This suggests that the melancholy blends itself across all aspects of her life. That she remembers the poem as being sung (past tense) as well as suggests that armory and sweetness have non been a part of her lifes journey. Listing the sweet years, the dear and wished for years The sweet ,sad years, the melancholy years. This again emphasizes how frequently Joy and beauty she has missed let on on and how much she has suffered veteran tongue classical adjectival reference, could suggest these designs are foreign to her Just as an antique language is or that this happiness could only be found in the past. Lung powerful and Jarring verb. browning feels that fate has powerfully shadow she is outright an figure of her former self overdue to the illness, offering and oppression she has been through OR darkness has spread, there is no light of hope in her life. mystic Shape capitalizes-shape is personified. recondite meansspiritually allegorical, pertaining to mysteries of faith, pertaining to occult practices or ancient religions So This shape is foreign to her shape creation, form, destiny, from root of shape (v. )). heart contours of the body is attested from late ICC. Mean ing condition, state is for the first time recorded 1865, Aimer. Eng.In M. E. , the word likewise had a sense of a muliebritys private parts. hair An allusion to Homers Iliad. Epic which begins with Athena pulling Achilles by the hair. Divine interjection by the Gods. diminish could see Borrowings love for her as divine intervention. Her allusion to Homers epic subtly suggests that there is something heroic and brave well-nigh this romanticistic engagement. The gender propulsive of this allusion should not be overlooked. At the opening of the Iliad Achilles and A bouncymnon are contending over who will get to keep a captive female in his tent-an odd and raise allusion for the beginning of feminine love sonnets.In Barrett Brownings revision of this scene, the desiring female speaker assumes the position of epic hero. Pulled away from destructive, seductive thoughts of demise, she engages with the emotional risks of love when the conditions search to glorify her as much as her beloved thus the speaker is both the subject and object of love, revising without entirely reversing the Perchance tradition in which the woman is a silent object of admiration. This allusion to homers epic, as well as the heroic sonnet form, subtly suggests that there is something brave and heroic a rung this romantic engagement.Fate is symbolized as a woman constantly turning. Her hair had to be grabbed while he was facing you. Allusion to a A childrens game. The sestets is based on a childrens game of the time in which one child would creep up behind another, grab her hair and ask Guess who it is? The poet compares falling in love to this game. She suggests than when the unknown feeling (of love) metaphorically drew me backwards by the hair, she assumed that it was death that was seizing her (her pessimistic expectation). Mystic Shape (line 10) suggests something mysterious and possibly sinister. In line 12 A voice said in mastery while I strove suggests the power of her new linings and her attempts to resist them because she feared them. Silver answer-color imagery-love has found her scarcely isnt quite gold yet. She foundation while she is Joyful to find love she is wary of it. Silver to a fault represents purity, so perhaps the answer of love is pure and straightforward as further witnessed through the use of monosyllables non Death but Love Rang-connotative of wedding bells or announcements.Loud volume. Has it awoken her from her melancholy and sadness? Rang is also in present tense to show her awakening to love and Joy, as opposed to the past tense sung Wished Sung, Voice,Rang -the experience is auditory. Why? Sirens call? Has she subverted this? She is like the men lead to their death? The dangers of love? Perhaps she only understands love when she hears it from someone else, she herself cannot articulate it because of her isolated existence. Bells are commonly representative of Joy and freedom.The shape of the bell is closely connect to the vault of HEAVEN. A bells pendulous motion can represent the extremes of good and evil death and immortality. Its sound is a symbol of creative power, but can also be a call to arms. Is also phallic in some senses, a bell and handle = a vulva and a phallus. Embodiment of virginity, undivided women adorn themselves with bells. The use of direct speech in lines 13 & 14 dramatists her surprise. The ellipsis in line 14 creates suspense in advance the final antithesis of Not Death, but Love. Which highlights the great transmute in her outlook on life from the second quatrain. Volta Browning plays with the Patriarchal form because shes more intent on center rather than staying with form. Goes into 9th line in sestets. Provides a Volta in line 13 after the caesura but there. Ellipsis. The function of these is to show that she is reserved and reticent about comprehend love due to her societal constraints which include patriarchal power structure, history of illness and tragedy, feel s unworthy and mistrusts herself.Sense of Self-she is aware of her limitations and cleverly questions and challenges those through her poetry. Classical Elements in poesy Modern Elements of Poem Patriarchal Rhyme Scheme Theocratic Antique tongue Hair-allusion to Homers Iliad epic The drama of death and love evokes classical drama and mythology, figures such as Orpheus and Eurydice and the fugue of fate. Can read her poems as a version of the silent, suffering powerless womanUsurps manful conventions-shes no yener silent but smooth Uses her structure to infer movement from stasis to an opening up of emotions Cleverly invokes sexuality and desire in a strict patriarchal society Transforms ritual of identity-sonnet is about (values debate about identity within context of conformity) She is aware of her limitations and cleverly challenges them throughout her poetry She is reserved and reticent about embracing love due to her societal constraints patriarchal power Elizabeth Barrett B rowning Sonnet 13 Theme The dominant idea and tone of this sonnet seems to be uncertainty uncertainty bout whether the poet/persona can trust her lover and whether she can control the intensity of her own feelings. This poem is about EBB being unable to speak or need her love to Robert Browning, however, she paradoxically creates a work of art to declares her love. She declares herself as a poet maker which will then be her gift to Robert. She isnt ready to admit love yet. She will declare it when she is ready. The female voice instead of the traditional male voice.Unlike the traditional depiction of a woman in Patriarchs poetry-she is not silent. She poses and answers the heterocyclic ring question, And wilt though have me fashion into speech/the love I bear thee, finding words enough She adopts the Patrician sonnet style. She has control over her own silence, questioning the validity of words and hence the sonnet form itself. Paradox-this poem is about her not being able to co mmunicate yet she communicates with Robert Browning through this poem. She does not introduce a Volta in lines 8 or 9 which shows her determination to express her uncertainty about revealing her feelings to Robber Browning. The sonnet.This is contemplative of the conversational style of the letters and also emends the reader that the sonnet is part of a sequence of ideas. *The use of the archaic forms and wilt suggests that the question may be a device, as used in the sonnets of Shakespeare and the Metaphysical poets, to introduce her ideas dramatically, rather than a response to a real request from Robert. Hold the torch out where the words are rough/ between our faces, to cast a light on each?.. The torch and light here can symbolism illumination, picture show or disclo sure enough and hence the revelation of their love to others, which EBB is afraid of as it will allow them to be criticized by others. In these lines EBB is also creating a drama of epic significance. The flaming torches allude to classical drama.She is also the one in control as she is the torch bearer, which again subverts the traditional notion of the submissive woman in Patriarchal poetry. The metaphor where the words are rough suggests the external forces that make it difficult to her express her love publicly, possibly a reference to her fathers opposition. I drop it at thy feet. Cleverly denounces her previous image of power and control by submitting humbly to him. The use of the verb drop suggests her inability to efficaciously be a torchbearer and consequently she reveals to him that she in unable to effectively communicate her love to him in her writing, l cannot teach my hand to hold my spirit so far off/From myself.. Me. The high modality reflects her inability to do so. Nay, -let the silence of my womanhood/Commend my woman-love to thy belief- Cleverly adopts the role of a virtuous Victorian woman who until the point of marriage will not talk and must remain a mystery. The fi rst word of the sestets Nay (No) does not introduce a Volta (turn) in this case. sort of it emphasizes her determination not to declare her love, reinforcing the second quatrain. And that I stand union, however wooed. There is a lovely play on contrasting words here with the W sound which emphasizes the paradoxical nature of her situation. She is in love but cannot admit it, however, cleverly explores and conveys her emotions of uncertainty to Robert through her poetry.She urges her lover to assume that she is following the conventions of polite love (suggested by the phrase woman-love and the archaic word wooed), in which the woman was expected to pretend disinterest as a sign of modesty and a way to encourage her lover to more extravagant protestation of his love. (This links to the archaic forms in the first quatrain. ) Here, the verb rending is powerful and sexual. Her outward unresponsiveness conceals profoundly felt passion. The image of being ravished is suggested in the m etaphor of her life as a garment being torn apart. The superlative most coupled with the rhyming and long sounding dauntless, voiceless reveals the amount of mental and emotional strength needed by EBB to guard her feelings.She again creates the classical image of woman. She is heroic and strong in grief. Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief. The singular One touch conveys the powerful brevity of tenderness and instantaneous consequent vulnerability of revealing her love. Should she reveal her love, she will be open to grief, the grief that comes with love and happiness. It may also be personal grief due to the loss of her brother as well as the social grief that comes as a result of the restrictions placed on women during her time. Revealing her love will make her vulnerable in m any(prenominal) shipway and will open up a plethora of emotions for her. Admitting love.The pronouns change from male thou and thee to female to I and myself. Me to neutral this. This could revea l the answer in which she constructs a crossbreed gender for herself which allows her to escape patriarchal constraints and usurp masculine conventions (see below). The drama is that this is a woman speaking as a lover to a lover, about the nature of love poetry. The emphasis is on the nature of Woman-love and the paradox is that her traditional silence has become powerful eloquence. Part of the challenge is that EBB works with cross dressing and paradoxes about hybrid gender , as in her poems o George Sand, that large-brained woman and large-hearted man.While she usurps masculine conventions, authority and eloquence she also insists that she retains a tragic identity as the constantly union and enduring woman, the lover who cannot admit love, and in that way suffers love that in turn leads to sadness. Intellectualism and paradox are certainly part of her strategy and essential to the emotional power of the sonnet. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 14 In this poem EBB has accepte d her suitors love, but now makes demands regarding the nature of that love. She urges her lover to love her not for any particular reason, but simply because he loves her for loves sake only. She argues that if there is a particular reason for loving someone, then a change in circumstances can remove the reason and destroy the love.One interesting exposition is that she is cleverly This could be validated with the fact that love is repeated nine times in the poem. If thou must love me, let it be for enough/Except for loves sake only. The opening line is very dramatic and is addressed directly to the lover in the archaic second person (thou). She tells him If you must love me, let it be for nothing. The high modality of the auxiliary verb must may be playfully suggesting that she does not really want him to love her or that she cannot believe that he would actually want to (a sign of her sense of inferiority). Like Sonnet 13 she also begins with the conjunction if which creates a conversational tone. The idea of loving her for nothing seems strange until we read line 2. (I. E. He power of the idea is created by the enjambment, creating a interruption before the qualifying condition except). Do not say/ I love her for her smile.. Re look.. Her way Of speaking gently.. for a trick of thought/ That falls in well with mine, and Cortes brought/ A sense of pleasant ease on such as day- EBB uses the imperative voice and listing of received attributes that are admired in women to warn Robert not to love her for these superficial qualities as they are subject to change. Ellipsis is used in these lines to suggest alternates that he might say. (Cortes certainly) For these things in themselves beloved, may/Be changed, or change for thee,.. ND love so wrought,/May be inwrought so. Here, EBB explains why she does not want IM to love her in these ways because these things may change, destroying the love. In using the contrast of opposites Wrought/inwrought EBB highl ights how easily love may come unstuck when it is based on transient qualities, as easily and simply as adding a small prefix to a word that resonates with work and effort. The word beloved in line 7 shows that she really loves him, dispelling any doubt that may have been created by line 1 . She has not used this word before to address him in previous poems for study. Neither love me for /Thing own dear pity wiping my cheeks dry For one might well forget to weep, who aegir/Thy comfort long, and lose love thereby- The idea in lines 9 12 is that he should not love her because he pities her unhappiness, because his love would make her happy, so he could no longer pity her, and therefore, no longer love her. The exclamatory shows that she is horrified of being pitied. But love me for loves sake, that evermore/ Thou Mays love on through loves eternity. The poem ends with a clear and direct use of the imperative mood to emphasis her main idea love me for loves sake. She repeats the w ords of line 2, avian explained why she made the opening statement. Not be affected by changing circumstances, further reinforcing the poets main idea.In terms of the sonnet form, EBB has now moved away from the half rhymes in her sestets to full rhyme for, bore evermore and dry, thereby. However, she utilities half rhyme in ending with eternity. This serves to emphasis the uniqueness of the word and the longevity of their love (made up of four syllables and the longest sounding word in the poem) and hence the uniqueness of their love if it isnt based on approaching her and loving her as a conventional woman. F a woman in Patriarchal poetry-she is not silent. She is in control and makes demands of Robert Borrowing love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 21 The tone of this sonnet is dramatically different from the three previous ones set for study.It is more exuberant (excited, high-spirited), clearly shown by the number of exclamations. This might suggest that her doubts about the genuineness of Robbers love are decreasing and she is beginning to enjoy their relationship. (One study guide refers to her pleasure, another to her thrill. ) An alternative reading might be that there is a sense of desperation in her excitement that she is urging him to keep telling her that he loves her so she can overcome her doubts. There is evidence in the poem to Justify either approach, so you must make your own Judgment. In lines 1 -6 she urges her beloved to keep telling her that he loves her.There is a typical dramatic opening, addressing her lover directly Beloved and using repetition again and yet again. The repeated use of exclamatory in line 6 and 7 line create a sense of exuberance. The foregrounding of the adjectival Beloved may reveal an acceptance of her feelings towards Robert Browning, as she has now placed the term f endearment at the start of the poem (in contrast to Sonnet 14). Mores it relegates him to the object of the poem and thus EBB again subverts the t raditional Patriarchal sonnet which had the woman as the object. EBB also subverts the form by taking control through the use of the imperative tone. She compares his repeated declarations of his love to the song of the cuckoo (cuckoo-song & cuckoo-strain).This bird is heard very frequently in spring in England, and many people get sick of its monotonous calling. She suggests that while people might get sick of perceive the cuckoo, it should be welcomed because spring Anton come without it. In the same way, she cannot experience love without him Remember, never to the hill and plain/ Valley & wood, without her cuckoo-strain. Hills were the first manifestation of the creation of the world, stand up high enough to be set away from primeval chaos, but lacking the majestic size of mountains. Biblical allusion Isaiah 404 Every valley shall be raised, and every mountain and hill made low, the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.This suggests how everything will be complete and perfect when he repeats his love for her. Plains-symbol of space and boundless earth. Horizontal and opposed to the vertical hill. Valley-symbolic complement of a mountain. Egg yin (valley) and yang (Mountain). Commonly a symbol of fertility and life. Valley is also a Biblical allusion to Psalm 23 regular(a) though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me your rod and your staff, they comfort me (lots of sexual connotations here ) Wood- Symbolizes superhuman wisdom and knowledge. The carpenter uses tools symbolic of the divine power of bringing order out of chaos.Through the use of these natural and Biblical symbols. EBB suggests that they will not find perfection, complementing unity or order in their love without him repeating he loves her. Note the avatar of sweet Spring in all her green completed to herald a fresh start/rebirth/growth. Green is also the color of the Goddess of love Aphrodite who was innate(p) fro m a green sea-so mythological allusion. In lines 7 9 she admits to doubts about his love. darkness, doubtful spirit, doubts pain and Cry have powerful negative connotations, suggesting that the process of deciding whether he really loves her has been very painful. Are these doubts in the past or the present? The use of ellipsis in line 9 suggests hesitation, make the use of the imperative (Cry .. Speak seem a little desperate. In lines 9- 11 the rhetorical question suggests renewed authority. She argues that just as you cannot have too many stars or too many flowers, so you cannot say l love you too often. This continues the association of his love with positive aspects of nature begun in line 6. Stars are symbols of divinity and constancy much like their love. Flowers in contrast are transitory (they dont live forever). EBB again uses humbly to show how their love whilst mortal, can remain eternal. In lines 12 13 she again uses the imperative mood, combined with repetition to u rge him to continue to say he loves her. chime metaphorically compares declaring his love to ringing a bell and silver utterance has positive connotations. (Note that she used silver answer in Sonnet 1) We discussed silver as being less precious than gold and therefore their love whilst still precious is more real rather than ideal. The bell is a symbol of Joy and freedom and in some senses is also phallic- so there are sexual connotations here again. In line 13 the dash introduces a change of idea, and a change to a more serious tone. While she enjoys hearing him say that he loves her, she also wants him to love her in deep and lasting love. In terms of the sonnet form, this is the first sonnet for study that does not employ half rhyme in the sestets.Thus the full rhyme could signify her growing confidence in their love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 22 The tone of this sonnet is very different to that of Sonnet nineteen. It is extremely serious but also confident, suggesting that the poet is absolutely sure of the truth of what she is saying. EBB suggests that their love can take them into a spiritual realm away from earthly concerns, but then rejects this. She prefers them to remain earthly lovers, even though she recognizes that physical love is not permanent because it cannot overcome death. She argues that nothing in life can harm them because they love each other. There is also a sense of equality in this poem. There is no masculine or feminine aspect.Shes become a man/woman voice (note the allusions to masculine mythological figures. Angels are gender neutral). In this sonnet the poet uses the first person plural (we / us / our). This is a velveteen from the previous ones set for study, in which she used the first and second person singular. The change reflects her growing certainty that they truly love each other. In the octave she imagines their souls facing each other in silence, acquire closer together until their lengthening wings break into fire. This image seems to refer to their deaths, when their physical bodies will be destroyed and their souls will escape to heaven together. This interpretation is supported by the reference to angels.It links to the wish expressed in Sonnet XIV to be loved through loves eternity. and in Sonnet XIX to be loved with his soul. The image also has overtones of the mythical phoenix, a bird that burns itself to ashes and comes forth with new life (it is a symbol of resurrection) suggesting the intensity of the love has destroyed her old self and renewed her. Until their lengthening wings break into fire. Here we have the use of classical/ mythological allusion to Circus who flew to close to the sun and had his wings melt. Could this suggest that their love is so passionate it could be dangerous? Fire is also a symbol for knowledge and wisdom and again refers to the classical story of