Topic > Analysis of Elizabeth Browning's Poetry - 1072

I find that being a poet influences the themes of their poems; that female poets most likely write about love, and true love. Compared to male poets who write about love, but more in a male dominant, women are the stereotype of women. As Elizabeth writes about mutual love and even more about the emotional and spiritual connection between two spouses instead of each other's physical and mental being. Between the poems of the Sonnet and “A Musical Instrument” the theme of love is addressed in a positive and negative way; they show the true beauty and meaning of love, but also support the problems and difficulties related to love. The discussion of love problems is shown in "A musical Instrument" (The Broadview Anthology of Poetry), following the myth, due to the nymph not falling in love with Pan because of his appearance; describes that most "love" is seen externally. Since love was popular in the Victorian era, death was also quite common. Although Browning does not talk much about death in most of his poems, excluding “A Dead Rose,” there was more mention of death and the end of some poems in his “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” For example in Sonnet 22 (Sonnets from Portuguese) “A place to stay and love for a day, / With darkness and the hour of death surrounding it”. (13/14), the