Victorian+Research

Essential Questions for Victorian Poetry
 * What social and political factors affected life in Victorian England?
 * What did Victorians value?
 * How did Victorian writers respond to issues of their time?
 * What similar themes or tropes weave themselves throughout the texts? Why?

Read two of the following poems from various artists and reflect upon them. Using the poems that you've read answer the essential questions on your blog. Then find a contemporary piece of art, music, or literature that you feel like parallels the themes presented in the texts that you read. Explain, on your blog, how these contemporary works remind you or link to the Victorian works you've read.
 * Author || Title of Poem || Page No. ||
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning || [|"Sonnet 43"] || p. 715 ||
 * || "[|Change Upon Change]" ||  ||
 * Robert Browning || "[|My Last Duchess]" || p. 709 ||
 * || "[|Porphryia's Lover]" ||  ||
 * Alfred, Lord Tennyson || "[|The Lady of Shalott]" ||  ||
 * || "[|In Memoriam]" ||  ||
 * || "[|Crossing the Bar]" ||  ||
 * || "[|Ulysses]" || p. 704 ||
 * A. E. Housman || "[|To an Athlete Dying Young]" || p. 727 ||
 * || "[|When I Was One-and-Twenty]" ||  ||
 * Gerard Manly Hopkins || "[|Pied Beauty]" || p. 719 ||
 * Matthew Arnold || "[|Dover Beach]" || p. 722 ||