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This 5 page research paper examines two poems, 'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known' by William Wordsworth and 'Sonnets From the Portuguese' (XXI, XXII, XXXII) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Specifically analyzed are the poets' attitudes about love -- Wordsworth's romantic notions despite acceptance of realism and Browning's more dream-like prose.
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of nature is quite evident in these works, with natural settings described in vivid detail prominently featured in many of his finest romantic poems. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the
most successful female romantic poet of the nineteenth century, with her reputation even surpassing that of her husbands, Robert Browning. Both Wordsworth and Browning utilized the sonnet poetic form
for their romantic prose, which is a rigidly-structured rhyme and verse (usually consisting of 14 lines) with one dominant theme. However, while Browning virtually limited her poetry to sonnets,
Wordsworth employed lyrical ballad and ode styles as well. William Wordsworths finest romantic poems are generally believed to be the ones from his "Lucy" series of five odes. The
subject and object of the narrators affections is Lucy Gray, and for years, scholars have been attempting to determine who Lucy represents. Many have since concluded that Lucy does
not symbolize any unrequited love of Wordsworths but, rather, is actually Wordsworth himself, or his ideal self. This paper was sold by , Inc. The most
eloquent of the five poems is the first one, entitled, "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known." Perhaps the finest collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning sonnets is "Sonnets From
the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring which to him resembled that of someone Portuguese.
As evidenced by the poems opening stanzas, Wordsworth is a stickler for structure, with four lines per stanza, with rhyming first and third lines and second and fourth lines.
Also, the first and third lines are comprised of eight-nine syllables while the second and fourth lines are six syllables in length: "Strange fits of passion have I known: /
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