Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Jane Brontë were English women born during the 1800s who became two of the most noteworthy poets of the Victorian era. Many of their works of literature remain classics today. Though Emily Brontë is mostly revered for her novel, Wuthering Heights, she was also the author of various poems. One such poem is Hope, which, although only five stanzas long, manages to convey a clear subject and uses strong instances of figurative language such as personification, similes, and metaphors. It follows a rhyming pattern in which the first and third lines of each stanza rhyme with each other, as do the second and fourth lines. Hope focuses on the subject of losing hope. The emotion, 'Hope', is personified as a shy friend of the speaker. Throughout …show more content…
One of her poems is called A Dead Rose. Though longer than Hope at 8 stanzas long, it is more difficult to decipher what the author was thinking while creating this poem. The rose could be literal, or it could represent something else. The poem follows a different rhyming pattern than Hope; the first and fourth lines of each stanza end with the word 'thee', while the second and third lines are a rhyming couplet. A Dead Rose starts with the speaker pointing out that the rose is no longer soft and sweet as it used to be, in a seemingly bitter manner. Browning mentions that the rose was 'kept seven years in a drawer', so rather than being displeased with the rose itself, she may be angry at whoever caused the rose to become this way. The next few stanzas focus on what Browning imagines the rose must have experienced while it was still alive and in its natural location. She writes about how the breeze used to blow past the rose, the sun used to shine on it, the dew used to form on it, and bees used to gather pollen from it. At the end of each stanza, Browning somberly points out that these things will never happen to the rose