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The paper looks at the background of Robert Browning and his early years in the island of St. Kitts within the Caribbean. The paper relates that Robert Browning's father worked at the Bank of England where he began to work although he wanted to become an artist. The paper also mentions that Browning received scarce education yet read many books and poems where he familiarized himself in conceptualizing atheist values.

Tags:porphyria, browning, victorian

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This paper reviews how the poem 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' by Robert Browning utilizes a dramatic monologue that provides aesthetic detail and moral values. In many ways, this poem echoes the other poetical works of Browning, by providing a moral insight into the sometimes hypocritical nature of organized religion. By realizing these facets of his poetry, Browning's dramatic monologue offers character narratives that are morally based within a Christian milieu.

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"This literary study will analyze morality within the dramatic monologue of Robert Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." The morality of the monk that is narrating in this poem reflects the often hypocritical clerical view of Christianity. Browning shows a propensity for this form aesthetics in portraying a character that is morally declaratory, but lives an immoral lifestyle. This aspect of the poem is a common thread in Browning's dramatic dialogue, since it relies on morality and character details to reflect the hypocrisy of religious values."

Tags:browning, literature, poetry

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This paper explains that Christ-like human beings are instruments for the arts in the poetry of Robert Browning. The author points out that, by addressing how Browning created "Pippa Passes", the reader can learn how his poetic style of monologue matured in Ira Lippo Lippi's style and religious ideology. The paper states that Browning was an extremely dedicated follower of the Christian faith, which resides clearly in how human beings are used instruments for his own poetic vision.

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"The drama of "Pippa Passes" reflects the way that God is a messenger of the arts within the poetic style that Robert Browning applies in his verse. In this manner, Browning has a supreme faith in the Christian God to guide Pippa by this seemingly invisible hand to influence artists in a positive manner."

Tags:browning, poetry, god

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This paper examines the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, two English poets who wrote during the Romantic and Victorian eras, respectively. Shelley's, "A Song: 'Men of England,'" and Browning's, "The Cry of the Children," discuss the oppression of the working classes in England during their respective eras. This paper illustrates the way Shelley and Browning are both similar in the way they use critical analysis, calls to action and appeals to their respective audiences; while also illustrating the way Shelley and Browning differ in their types of audiences and the way they appeal to readers in different ways.

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"English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, share more than just their nationality. However, the two poets never lived in England at the same time. Shelley wrote during England's Romantic period of literature, while Browning wrote during the Victorian period. Although the poets experienced life in England at different times in history and composed their works within distinctly different literary movements, Shelley's and Browning's poetry share a profound connection of theme. In Shelley's "A Song: 'Men of England'" and Browning's "The Cry of the Children," both writers defend the working classes of England during their respective time periods. Shelley and Browning both use the theme of the oppression of the working class in their poetry to search for an answer to the problems faced by English workers."

Tags:English, nationality, wrote, period, literature

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The paper discusses Browning's book "Ordinary Men", where Browning wants the reader to see how a unit of the German Order Police, who committed terrible acts by carrying out a number of killings and other atrocities as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Poland, were actually "ordinary men". The paper describes Browning's analysis of these men, which is told in a detailed way and that exposes all the questions that might be raised. The paper also highlights the Browning's difficulty in explaining how ordinary individuals could commit such terrible atrocities against the Jews during the Holocaust.

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"Brown asks how these men faced this dilemma and offers a history of the Order Police, though that history does not explain the central issue of why these men acted so brutally and so out of their normal character. Browning does try to answer the question of why these men acted as they did, though he also points out that no one reason can be offered as to why the many man involved committed the acts they did. Any explanation would apply only to a percentage of the whole and not to all. One force that Browning does cite as important is the conditioning of society, conditioning that accustomed people to respecting and deferring to authority."

Tags:conditioning, society, authority, obedience, obligation, moral, values, Holocaust, Nazis

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The paper presents the details of one of the most historical poets in the English literature, Robert Browning. Before providing the details and evidence of the poetry of Browning, the paper introduces a short biography so that the background information regarding the poet's nature and his attitude towards life can be noted. The characteristics and the personality traits of Browning are included in the study. Special attention is given to the various aspects of Robert Browning's poetry, which are emphasized and elaborated in the paper.

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"The background and details of Robert Browning signifies the fact that he was the son of a clerk. He developed his interest in writing from an early age and later on he developed his talent, and finally he became known for the collection of his poems, which are still remembered and appreciated by the readers all around the world. As soon as he grew up he wrote immense books and poems and at a point of time, he, met lady Elizabeth with whom he worked for almost two years and finally got married with her. After his marriage he went to France and he continued writing there also. He came back to England after the death of his wife."

Tags:poetry, nature, england

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This paper explains that Robert Browning's peerless reputation among Victorian poets is linked primarily to four volumes of poetry he published over a period of twenty years during the mid-19th century. The author points out that Browning's most famous poetic form of choice is the dramatic monologue, which is a poem that is written in the voice of another person, as exemplified in poems such as "My Last Duchess" . The paper relates that Browning's poems are portraits of individuals, rather than searching self-explorations; however, these portraits tackle critical issues, which concerned the poet, such as political corruption, religious intolerance and outmoded conceptions about women.

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"Interestingly enough, although "the central problem in Browning's love poetry is invariably one of communication between the sexes", Browning's own marriage to a fellow poet was quite happy. He married the (at the time) more famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, after admiring her poetry, and encouraging her to elope from what was an oppressive relationship with a domineering father. The two of them escaped to Italy, making the words of one of Browning's few lyrics, "Home," written in the voice of an evident expatriate, ironic and poignant."

Tags:dramatic-monologue, duchess, portugues, porphyria, portraits

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The paper reviews Robert Browning's life, and notes key works he wrote at various points in his career. The paper analyzes a number of Browning's poems, and for each one cites critical passages pointing to a major theme of the work. The paper concludes that Robert Browning was one of the major moral-aesthetic thinkers of the 19th century, who believed that imperfection, which is what separates Heaven from Earth and God from man, is the law of life.

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"In Browning's best poems, people from the past reveal their lives and thoughts by speaking aloud. A typical Browning poem tells of a key or pivotal moment in the life of a prince, priest, or painter of the Italian Renaissance. A few of Robert Browning's common themes are about Man's relationship to God verses his fellow man, infinities are unattainable to man in his present state of imperfection, and imperfection is the law of life."

Tags:moral, aesthetic, esthetic, imperfection, man, god

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This paper reviews Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men," and its analysis of Nazi soldiers that murdered innocent civilians in the holocaust. The paper shows the methods used by the soldiers to rationalize their actions even though many of them were morally opposed to what they were ordered to do.

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"It is understandably commonplace to refer to Hitler as a monster, as inhuman. It is also, by extension, equally commonplace to refer to the Nazis who obeyed him as monsters as well. Yet before the implementation of the madness that was the "Final Solution" in Germany and Eastern Europe, these Nazi soldiers were human beings like ourselves, individuals who lived in a world only a half-century or so before ours. They made ethical decisions on a day-to-day basis. They were ordinary men, according to Christopher R. Browning, who committed acts of extraordinary cruelty. The thesis of his book, appropriately titled 'Ordinary Men,' provides a less comforting view of the foot soldiers of the Holocaust than is tempting to take. But it is ultimately more ethically illuminating these men were not monsters, Browning suggests, they were ordinary men who provide an example for us all how low we can sink if we are not vigilant in resisting the evil that exists around us."

Tags:Nazi, Germany, Jew, holocaust, World War II

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This paper explains that a comparison of the two poems reveals that the poems' apparently misogynistic tones disguise the poets' true attitudes toward women. The writer provides an analysis of the poems' speakers, tone, and figurative language. Browning and Marvell both use irony, figurative language, and a distancing of the poet from the speaker to convey their attitudes toward women. It explains that Browning contradicts his speaker's impression of women as objects to be possessed, who should obey their masters and inordinately appreciate their masters' "gifts." Marvell disagrees with the attitude that women are easily manipulated by "talk of love" and readily dominated by morbid threats. It concludes that both authors express-albeit in a backhanded way-a very liberated attitude toward women, especially given the prevailing mores at the time of these poems' publications.

From the Paper
"Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" explore selected aspects of male-female relationships. Marvell's poem focuses on a suitor's entreaties to a prospective lover. Browning describes a meeting between an Italian nobleman and the representative of a potential bride's family. Through their choices of speaker and their use of figurative language and tone, the poets express consistent, progressive attitudes toward women. This paper will examine how each poet's use of the above three elements reveals his attitudes toward women."

Tags:19th, attitude, century, comparison, contrast, english, men, nineteenth, objectification, poem, poetry, romantic, sexism, women