love in victorian writing
The Victorian period was one of dramatic social and technological change where the City and industrialisation rapidly engulfed the space that was once occupied by countryside and beautiful scenery. Yet, it was common among Victorian writers to associate love and romance with nature and the countryside, such as Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis, Robert Browning's love poetry in Men and Women, and in some of Tennyson's poetry also."Much of Browning's verse in Men and Women is devoted to love poetry, to what Victorian readers particularly valued and what Sir Henry Jones called 'the richest vein of pure ore in his verse'. This vein of ore apparently seems less rich to the present age, probably because Browning's love poetry, for all its vast variety, is based upon certain personal doctrines, most centrally the belief that the experience of personal love is equivalent to a revelation of the divine nature. Love is indubitable, revelatory, and the climactic experience of life..."(1) Indeed, alot of Browning's love poetry contains a variety of emotions, sometimes it is sincerely romantic, sometimes it is sexually passionate, sometimes it is shocking and unnerving, but ultimately, it leaves us with
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,Than the two hearts beating each to each!" the feeling that love is the most climactic experience that we will ever encounter in life. Browning engages the poetical value of the sea in his companion poems, Meeting at Night, and Parting at Morning. There is a beautiful harmony between nature and love in Meeting at Night, where Browning dramatically presents a climactic rendezvous between two lovers and condenses it into two stanzas: For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in,
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Approximate Word count = 3358
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page double spaced)
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