VICTORIAN POETRY
Poetry became more concerned with SOCIAL REALITY
leading to:
majestic poetry celebrating the MYTH OF THE GREATNESS OF ENGLAND
DISBELIEF and ANTI-MYTH poetry trying to solve the ethical problems raised by progress
IMAGE OF THE POET
a prophet
a philosopher
someone who could
find the romantic side of modern life
be optimist
reconcile faith and progress
OUTSTANDING POETS
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Alfred Tennyson
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
LOVE SONNETS
UNCONVENTIONAL RHYTHM
DISSATIFACTION OF HIS TIME
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
a narrative poem in which a character addresses one or more non-speaking listeners
similar to Elizabethan SOLILOQUY
the character is experiencing a moment of crisis
the reader infers the poet's thought because he does not coincide with the character
absence of a unique truth (the speaker must be judged only on his own words)
argumentative tone to reveal the character's thoughts
interest in hyman psychology
it opens new possibilities for poetry in the Modern Age
Porphyria's Lover