Love and Marriage in Poetry
In this assignment I shall be talking about the attitudes to love and
marriage, which these three poems reveal as well as their similarities
and their differences. The three poems I shall be focusing on are 'How
Do I Love Thee?' which was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
'Remember', by Christina Rossetti; and Lord Byron's 'When we two
parted'. These three love poems are from the Victorian Era which
spanned over half a century. I shall be analysing the language, which
will lead me into an understanding of the meaning of each poem and
also the structure. In brief, two of these poems not only talk about
love's eternal qualities, but also about death and the pain of
separating. They are unanimously romantic in tone, religious in
outlook and hauntingly beautiful.
Victorian marriages were normally strict, a good thing for men, but
bad for women. Women were not allowed to make their own decisions in
marriage, but if they did and the father found them, he would separate
them. When the father married the daughter off, they sometimes got
unlucky and ended up with a husband who did not love the lady but just
used them as servants and for their body. In the Victorian Era, ladies
had no freedom what so ever, they were not allowed to have their own
houses, furniture, money; this all belonged to the husband. If some
women cannot stand the brutal behaviour, they either ran away or
committed suicide. In most cases, ladies tended to run away, but if
they did and made some money then unfortunately, if the husband finds
them, he will take all the money away. This was actually legal.
Not all Victorian marriag...
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...Thee' I believe that love and marriage are strongly
bonded as the narrator describes love in all its variety. I believe
she is describing her lover in many different passionate ways
reflecting her devotion - it is like a religion to her.
In 'Remember' the poet describes her feelings for her lover, (which is
a sad form of love). The narrator is talking about separation caused
by death where love is trapped in the middle. Yet it is
unusual in that, unlike Queen Victoria, Rossetti urges her lover to be
happy and if that means forgetting, then so be it. Victoria never did.
Both these female poets are also interesting in that love poetry was
the province of men, especially the Petrarchan sonnet, named after
Petrarch a Roman love poet. For women to be writing love poetry to men
was really quite revolutionary at the time.
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