How Did Charles Dickens Give Up The Victorian Era?

Charles Dickens is a very famous british author that wrote amazing stories; But did you know that he actually went to jail for debt at only 25, which was a recurring problem during his time? Looking back to the researched made and the poems that Charles Dickens made, he made it clear that he did not like what was happening in society. He made a lot of his poems considering death and issues about money and how there were unfair deaths for crimes that weren’t committed.

In an analysis of Charles Dicken’s poems A Fine Old Gentleman, Little Nell’s Funeral, and Gabriel Grub’s Song, one can see how the victorian elements of upheaval and utilitarianism, and abstract imagery are demonstrated. Charles Dickens demonstrated this by talking about economics

When looking up the victorian era, you can see how economics and utilitarianism were issues back then. “If there is one transcending aspect to Victorian England life and society, that aspect is change – or, more accurately, upheaval. Everything that the previous centuries had held as sacred and indisputable truth came under assault during the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century. Nearly every institution of society was shaken by rapid and unpredictable change. Improvements to steam engine technology led to increased factory production.” (Victorian Lit. 2) This goes into a problem society had in general and the need for a change. When considering the poem “A Fine Old Gentleman” you can see how economics and utilitarianism were issues back then. “Those were the days for taxes,

But, it was also admired back in the victorian era too. In the first half of the nineteenth century, poetry was still mired in the escapist, abstract imagery and themes of the earlier generation. (Victorian Literature 2) This is a very true because a lot of the writings during this time, and still today, were poems about random topics and were more for imagining and entertainment purposes. The poem, The Song of the Wreck, is a poem about a crew ship and how they would travel vast seas and face problems here and there. “The wind blew high, the waters raved,/ A ship drove on the land,/ A hundred human creatures saved/ Kneel'd down upon the sand./ Threescore were drown'd, threescore were thrown/ Upon the black rocks wild,/ And thus among them, left alone,/ They found one helpless child.” (The Song of the Wreck 1-8) This is ties into the era then since it is a fictional story and doesn’t talk about any