The Cry Of The Children By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Florence Kelley uses the rhetorical strategies of repetition, pathos, imagery, logos, and carefully placed diction to express how child labor is morally wrong. Her vivid and strong descriptions garner sympathy from her Philadelphia audience. Her use of diction expresses how the audience is to be blamed equally for the cruelty and inhumane nature of child labor. She is able to spur her audience and call them to action against the evil of child labor. “For the sake of the children… and their cause” (ln 92-94), Kelley expresses that

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the theme that I found in this book was family bond. In the book it talks about how the helps his father throughout the concentration camp. This shows you the family bond between the father and the son is strong even though he is questioning his religious belief. At the begin of the story they talk about how all the Jews were herded like cattle into these trains to the camps! I could see the father and son going to the camps by the train since I watched the film which also had to do with Jews and they were treated horribly I feel for the pain that they went through.

Roald Dahl uses humour in children books he writes to manipulate the reader’s perception of events that occur in the books. The book, Boy is an autobiography written by Roald Dahl. It was his first book and it is a combination of real events in his life. Matilda is one of his fictional books that he wrote later on. Dahl uses events that are actually gruesome and quite horrifying and makes them humorous by using sarcasm, hyperboles, short sentences, imagery, similes and juxtapositions (rose96, 2011). Dahl uses a lot of adjectives to describe the characters in his books to portray them in a humorous way. He uses figures of speech to describe a character and to make this character unique.

Browning was born on 7 May 1812 in Camberwell, a middle-class suburb of London; he was the only son of Robert Browning, a clerk in the Bank of England, and a devoutly religious German-Scotch mother, Sarah Anna Wiedemann Browning. He had a sister, Sarianna, who like her parents was devoted to her poet brother. While Mrs. Browning’s piety and love of music are frequently cited as important influences on the poet’s development, his father’s scholarly interests and unusual educational practices may have been equally

Elizabeth Barret Browning was born in 1806 in England. She lived the first twenty-six years of her life on her family’s estate, Hope’s End, in Herefordshire, England. Being from a wealthy family who made a fortune in Jamaica, she lived in luxury riding horses, making house calls, and hosting get-togethers with family friends. With a large private library, she spent much of her time reading classic literature and learning different languages. This somewhat carefree life was greatly affected when her mother died in 1826,

This poem was set in Renaissance Italy and women were denied all political rights and considered legally subject to their husbands. Women of all classes were expected to perform, first and foremost, the duties of housewife: sewing, cooking, and entertaining, among others. It is obvious from the historical context that Browning’s poem was

Have you ever loved someone so much that you would do anything in your power to help them in their time of need? In the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, the reader witnesses the love and strength of a grandmother for her grandson. The protagonist, Phoenix Jackson, shows love, determination and self-sacrifice as she faces several obstacles while traveling by foot in the cold through the wilderness. She travels this path frequently, as the title suggests, to the city to get medicine needed for her grandson. Phoenix’s willpower to continue on her path through every hindrance that she faces is commendable.

There is, however, a promising chance that it opened many eyes to what was happening right in front of them. Considering that this story is still being read today proves that somehow people somewhere acknowledged its importance enough to pass it on and consider it of noteworthy literary merit, and of noteworthy ethical importance. “The Cry of the Children” has not only affected the life of people in the Victorian Age, but it continues to affect people today. Because of admirable, brave souls like Elizabeth Barrett Browning who were willing to take a stand for what they believed was wrong, both children and adults no longer have to suffer through those punishing conditions. This story remains applicable to young impressionable minds and in the workings of society. People are still learning from people like Elizabeth- the simple yet significant poet- who understood the reality of greater times if only someone takes a

The two works Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass and The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Browning is different in several ways but also have some similarities. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography created in hopes of ending slavery. Douglass writes about several events that reveal the awfulness of slavery and the effects it has on people. The Cry of Children is a poem written to inform the upper class how harsh the work conditions are for children forced into labor at such a young age. These two literary works express their similar themes through revealing religious hypocrisy, illustration dehumanization in both forms of labor, and creating empathy among the readers for the victims.

The author is confessing her greatest love as her mission. The line “I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints” providing her emotional condition. (Barret Browning 509) She will live as long as she loves him and she is ready to sacrifice herself for their holy love. In the last two lines, Mrs. Barrett Browning exhibits a verdict that she wants to get from God: “Smiles, tears, of all my life; and,

The two Robert Browning poems, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ were written in the infamous Victorian Era whereas the two Shakespearean Sonnets were written in the Elizabethan Era. The styles of the poems differ in accordance to the difference of the time in which they were written. Pre-Romantic Era poems moved away from the idealistic concept of love towards a more realistic consideration of it, taking into account the social

In 1841 Elizabeth Barrett returned to the family home in London as an invalid. She stayed confined in her room and worked on book reviews and articles. “The Cry of the Children” was published one year later. This was a popular work that helped bring about the regulation of child labor. In 1844 she published a two-volume edition of her poems; in October of that same year, an American edition with an introduction by

After having read a government report exposing the heinous working conditions of child laborers in mines and factories, Browing began an impassioned campaign of awareness using her best medium of expression: the written word (Norton 421). Utilizing an uncomfortable and confrontational rhythm never before used by either her Romantic predecessors or Victorian contemporaries, Browning creates a vehement emotional plea in “The Cry of The Children” so powerful that it is credited with pushing the British parliament to pass new laws regulating child labor.

Robert Browning was born May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, London. His father was a senior clerk in the Bank of England. His mother was a pianist. His love for writing dramatic monologues came from his father who gave him the love Browning had for art and literature. Browning attended the University of London for half a year before returning home to read in his father 's library. His first work, Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession, was first issued in 1833. It was his second work that brought about his talents in the literature world. Paracelsus was the second work that Browning published; however, he felt as though it was failure, even though he had received many reviews and important friendships. Browning later had a disastrous work, Sordello, which caused him to decide to move onto dramatic monologue. This began the beginning of his more mature poetry that included many different poems that received a large amount of positive reviews. “Browning described himself as “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,/ Never doubted clouds would break” (“Robert Browning” np). Unfortunately, Browning passed away on Decemeber 12, 1889 in Venice, Italy. However, after his death, Browning continued to be acknowledged for his works. The Browning Society in London was created in 1969, which allowed individuals to remember Browning 's contributions to the literature world.

Sylvia Plath’s poetry is well known for its deeply personal and emotional subject matter. Much of Plath’s poetry is confessional and divulges the most intimate parts of her psyche whether through metaphor or openly, without creating a persona through which to project her feelings, and through the use of intense imagery. Plath’s attempt to purge herself of the oppressive male figures in her life is one such deeply personal and fundamental theme in her poetry. In her poem, “Daddy”, which declares her hatred for her father and husband, this attempt is expressed through language, structure, and tone. (Perkins, 591)