While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones. ... Noticeably, Browning repeats the phrase exactly seven times: perhaps representing the seven days of the week, expressing that she loves the addressee of her poem every day. ... Love, as a theme exists in poems, however differently, implying the many facets...

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Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... One of the obviously fundamental aspects of poetry is the language used and the literary devices employed, and Rosetti's poetry is certainly no exception to this. ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. ... The second poem I shall ex...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate