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English Literature - Victorian Poetry

CONTEXT - CHARLOTTE BRONTË
~ 1816 - 1854 ~

o Believed that if she were to marry someone then she must be willing to die for them
o Thought to be a wild, romantic enthusiast
o Wrote under the pseudo name 'Currer Bell'
 * her brother never knew she wrote
o Founded a school and taught her sisters
o Fan of satire
o Thought of her brother's death as a waste of talent (letter to WS Williams in 1848)

WHAT POEMS DID SHE WRITE (THAT WE STUDY)?

o 'The Autumn day its cours has run - the Autumn evening falls'
o 'The house was still - the room was still'
o 'I now had only to retrace'
o 'The Nurse believed the sick man slept'
o Stanzas

WHAT STYLE / THEMES / TYPES OF TECHNIQUE DOES C.BRONTË USE?

o Satire
o Passionate Love
o Romantic
o Sense of a Journey
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