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Victorian Medievalism . The medieval age as a time of more order, more rules/chivalry? A more naturalistic time? A way to comment on their society without directly commenting on it?. William Holman Hunt, “The Lady of Shallott”. John Waterhouse, “Penelope and the Suitors”.
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Victorian Medievalism • The medieval age as a time of more order, more rules/chivalry? • A more naturalistic time? • A way to comment on their society without directly commenting on it?
Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues Kathy Beres Rogers English 121
1812-1899 • Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 • Eloped to Italy with Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Men and Women (1855) • Dramatis Personae (1864)
Sonnet XLIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life !--and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. * she died in 1861; they knew one another for 16 years
Dramatic Monologue • The reader takes the part of the silent listener. • The speaker uses a case-making, argumentative tone. • We complete the dramatic scene from within, by means of inference and imagination.