U8 L11 Robert And Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question 1

How does Browning’s poetry differ from Tennyson?

Answer 1

• optimistic
• innovative
• obscure

Question 2

What is the difference between where Tennyson and Browning spent most of their lives?

Answer 2

T- England

B- Italy

Question 3

Who did Browning marry?

Answer 3

Elizabeth Barett

Question 4

Was Browning young when he started to write poetry?

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

Did Browning’s poetic ability develop quickly or slowly?

Answer 5

slowly

Question 6

Why did Elizabeth and Browning move to Italy after their marriage?

Answer 6

Elizabeth’s ill health

Question 7

Early in his poetic career, Browning admired who?

Answer 7

Shelley

Question 8

What was Browning’s first work? what was it modeled after?

Answer 8

Pauline, Shelley

Question 9

Who accused criticized and accused Browning of self-worship? What effect did this have on Browning?

Answer 9

• John Stuart Mill

- humiliated, avoid subjectivity from Shelley

Question 10

Browning’s rejection of subjectivity led to the development of what?

Answer 10

dramatic monologue

Question 11

What is a dramatic monologue?

Answer 11

• one speaker
• talking to one or more characters
• listener doesn’t speak
• characters reveal inner thoughts/feelings
• less admirable traits

Question 12

Browning is noted for his reliance on what?

Answer 12

psychology

Question 13

although Browning rejected subjectivity, what did he retain?

Answer 13

• idealism

- sense of striving for goals

Question 14

What is Browning’s most typically Victorian characteristics?

Answer 14

energy and vitality

Question 15

Where did ‘My Last Duchess’ first appear?

Answer 15

Dramatic Lyrics

Question 16

Who is the speaker in ‘My Last Duchess’?

Answer 16

Italian Renaissance Duke

Question 17

Although Browning loved Italy, did he love England mor?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

What is ‘Home Thoughts, from Abroad’ about?

Answer 18

Browning’s longing for England

Question 19

What was Elizabeth Barett’s life like before 1846?

Answer 19

secluded, invalid

Question 20

What were the subjects Elizabeth was interested in and wrote about?

Answer 20

• child labor
• slavery
• unequal woman status

Question 21

‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ is a collection of how many sonnets? Who was it gifted to?

Answer 21

• 44

- husband (Browning)

Question 22

The title ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ is probably a reference to what?

Answer 22

Browning calling Elizabet ‘little Portuguese’

Question 23

What does ‘A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed’ talk about?

Answer 23

Elizabeth’s religious belief and health concerns

Question 24

What did Elizabeth praise in ‘Work and Contemplation’?

Answer 24

• Victorian work ethic

- sense of women power

Question 25

What did Elizabeth express her concern for in ‘The Cry of the Children’?

Answer 25

children

Question 26

What does ‘A Child Asleep’ demonstrate of Elizabeth?

Answer 26

concern and love for children