2。2 Three Phases of Mrs。 Browning’ s Poetry

    Love was the mainline in Mrs Browning’ s poems, and she poured all her emotions and life into it。 The phase of her Poetry could be pided into three parts。

    The first was her happy time of girlhood。 The poems were full of her ardent love to nature and her fantasy to life。 She used childlike innocence to feel the beauty of poems, to explore the mystery of nature, and to experience the warmth of the world。 She never attended school, and received formal education。 Her talents were from her natural gifts and diligence。 She had a passion for literature, loved classical Greek culture, so she learned ancient Greek。 She learned poems at the age of 8, and wrote four volumes of epic at the age of 13。 Although they were imitated works, the poetry is considered as pure, fresh, lively, enthusiastic, bold and unrestrained style。 She translated the Aeschylus’ tragedies “Prometheus Bound”, which showed her admiration fire-stealing hero。 The 18th century was still a dark society, and she was like a ball of fire, burning herself。 She would like steal fire like a hero, sent the light and brought warmth to human beings。 

    The second was the tortuous stage when she fought against illness and signed for the human society。 As she was paralyzed in bed, the despair of death and call of life were luring her, but she did not sink into hopelessness, and she turned the personal pain into love for human and hope for living。 So she wrote “The Seraphim”, “Children Crying” and other long poems。 She contemplated life, cursed the devil, and cried against unequal society, the oppression and exploiters。 

The third phase was the peak period of her love, great love and universal love。 Mrs。 Browning’ s love and sincerity to Mrs Browning made her burst out the spark of life, and then 44 poems in “Lyric Sonnet” came out。 Love gave her the courage to stand up from the sickbed miraculously。 The power of love was great, and the magic of love was eternal。 Lyric sonnet was the song of her life。 来,自.优;尔:论[文|网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

III。 Mrs。 Browning’ s Feminism in Her Poetry

    This part is going to analyze the Feminism in Mrs Browning’ s poetry on the whole, from the perspective of her outlook on love as well as humanistic thoughts。 The Feminism in her love outlook changed from self-awareness to self-retrospection and then to self-transcendence。 Her humanistic thoughts could be displayed from her opposition against children labor abuse, slavery as well as inequality between male and female。 All these thoughts exerted a great and extensive effect on people。