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Results tagged with elizabeth-barrett-browning
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For questions about the life and works of the Victorian-era English poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861).
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Meaning of "that all the towns make offal of their daughters for its use on summer-nights"
One possible reading: “its” is “his very body as a man.” So, it could be a very circumlocutionary way of saying something like, “The physical urges of men are so base, women in every town die because …
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Meaning of "who bespoke our place so far in the east"
I won’t claim to have the definitive answer, but one recurring theme in the poem is the morning sun as the source of the soul and of divine inspiration. Aurora is even called out within the poem as a …
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