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This 5 page report discusses the love poetry of the Victorian era. The writers of the Victorian Era responded to the innovations and changes of the world with their own literary changes. Just as the scientists, inventors, and politicians of the time refused to believe there were boundaries to what could be accomplished, the writers and poets saw that it was possible to explore new realms of expression. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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free from (some) constraints of how a poem was supposed to be crafted. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A. E. Housman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rosetti, Alfred Tennyson, William
Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde (to name only a few of the poets of the time) understood that they had the opportunity to present their poetry of love in a new
voice. The writers of the Victorian Era responded to the innovations and changes of the world with their own literary changes. Just as the scientists, inventors, and politicians of the
time refused to believe there were boundaries to what could be accomplished, the writers and poets saw that it was possible to explore new realms of expression. Despite what
are now thought of as the constraints of Victorian times, when decorum, social standing, and propriety were of utmost concern, there was also a sense that creativity was at
its ascendance. It is also important to remember that the Victorian era was also a time in which there were enormous disparities in terms of the socio-economic structure. Enormous wealth
was juxtaposed against the most abject poverty. The euphoria of the changing world and all of its potential was tempered by the despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities
for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Different Style of Victorian Poetry The Victorian literary movement took place in England from 1830 to 1900. Dillon
explains that: "The Victorian period, 1830-1900 as we usually think of it, was profoundly interested in period and in the language of periodicity: sequence, accumulation, phase, stratification" (237). In other
words, certain pre-determined and well-defined processes were in place that determined the ways in which certain constructs were understood, acted upon, and then interpreted. Often, such interpretations fly in the
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