Summary of my learnings of Elizabeth Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a female poet who broke the traditional boundaries of any female poets from her day. People say that Elizabeth broke boundaries since she tended to discuss topics in her poetry that other poets had never talked about. Some of the topics discussed that people believed were against her boundaries are the way she discussed politics. Around the time of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry women did not discuss politics and real life issues. Women were seen as uneducated and house keepers. The responsibilities of women were said to be taking care of the house and cooking. Elizabeth went beyond that in her poetry. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a very talented poet. She was able to convey a message through her poetry that gave people comfort and aspiration. Elizabeth Browning did not seem afraid to lay it all out there. She spoke her mind and said her opinions about the society she was living in. People looked to her poetry as a way to relate. Elizabeth wrote truth. She wrote about things that others were too hesitant to write about. Around the time of Elizabeth’s poetry, slavery was going on in the United States. Slavery was one of the few social justice issues that Browning covered in her poetry. Other social justice issues that Elizabeth Browning was not hesitant to write about involved child labor and the oppression of Italians by the Austrians. While Elizabeth’s writing was such a shock, she really started to relate to people who made others appreciate her.

On top of Elizabeth’s ability to relate to other she broke boundaries by being such a talented writer. She wrote with a very liberal point of view. Elizabeth was able to express aggregation in her poetry which excited her enthusiastic readers. She conveyed such emotional and brilliant messages that people started to look towards her writing. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an inspiration to many. She inspired civilians to speak up and gave them words to relate to. She also inspired future famous poets such as Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickenson.

In my opinion I think that Elizabeth Browning was a very brave women because she wrote about real social issues that gave others the ability to relate to when they may have had nothing to relate to. She was not afraid of the critics and what others had to say, she spoke the truth. While the format of Elizabeth Browning’s poems may seem very grey her deep messages I believe were very black and white. She wrote from her heart and that is what others were able to relate to. She wrote using such a beautiful poetic technique yet she conveyed such a deep and in my opinion needed message to the people of the century.

So much could be said about what could be learned through Elizabeth Browning’s poetry and about what I learned, but the main thing I took away was her attitude towards society and the fact that no matter what the critics said she still continued to write regardless of how political or how religious it may have been.