The Victorian Age in England was a complex time, a time of great national pride as a major empire and military power well as a time of stern domestic examination as categorize distinctions among the rich, the poor, the landed, the titled, and the unemployed continued to develop. Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson were three booster cable poets of the era who explored themes of social conscience and class distinction as well as searching for a way to in reality represent the times in which they lived accurately and artistically.
Barret Browning was quoted as saying poets should represent their mature, not Charlemagnes. By this, Barret Browning was winning the license to write about current issues and concerns that moved her and her contemporaries instead of being limited to the traditional themes of poetry. Her poem The out countersign of the Children is a particularly poignant accusation of the richer upper class Londoners who would go about their business while children under the age of ten were slaving away in mines and factories.
Barret Browning wrote the poem later on reading the Report on Child Labor, 1843 which was commissioned by Parliament and contained many startling facts, including that some children in the poorest classes began subject as early as five years old, that time of work often exceeded twelve hours a day and sometimes ran to eighteen, and that many times after the age of seven or eight, the child became a type of indentured servant and could and would be thrown in jail, regardless of age, if the indenture was broken. In Brownings poem, the children cry out for rest from these oppressive working conditions and find that the lonesome(prenominal) real rest is in death, like their friend myopic Alice, who from the sleep wherein she lieth none...
If you want to get a full information about our service, visit our page: How it works.
No comments:
Post a Comment