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Discuss ways in which Browning portrays love in ‘Love in a Life’ and
‘Life in a Love’
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The love story between the two
accomplished poets was very difficult as her father did not approve of the
union and they were forced to elope and marry in secret
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The rhyme scheme within Life in a Love is fragmented and disjoined,
which could imply that their lives are the same way, disorganized and
unconnected
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Love in a Life, on the other hand, is more relaxed and
calming, with a repetitive and continuous feel to it
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However, the ‘house’ mentioned in the poem does
not have to stand literally as it could involve a ‘house’ in the poet’s mind
where he has trapped that which he loves and is attempting to reach her
to profess his feelings
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Alliteration in Life in a Love show the poets
fear and distress at the possibility of not being with his love
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‘Dust and dark’
are also able to show this by adding a sense of underlying concern to the
poem
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‘Room’ is repeated in
the first line to show the yearning and suffering of the speakers in their
inability to find the object of their desire, and this also shows the length of
time he has been searching for her
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Also, both poems use enjambment as the poet is expressing his love to his
love
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In Love in a Love,
however, after, ‘I hunt the house through’, enjambment gives an
impression of a slight pause in his perusal
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Imagery in Life in a Love is shown through the unrequited feel of the love
he felt for Elizabeth
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In Love in a Life, however,
imagery is used to create the impression of a ‘house’, when, in actuality, it
is an extended metaphor of his own mind
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Love Among The Ruins can relate to both poems through the themes of
desertion and isolation
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The differentiation of long and
short lines gives the poem rhythm and a beat that allows it to flow freely
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The poem gives the impression that ‘Love conquers all’, which is in
contrast to Life in a Love, which implies that love is merely a burden
rather than something to be cherished
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In conclusion, although both poems relate to the ‘cat and mouse’ game
between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Life in a Love
shows the more desperate, meaningful side of live, whilst Love in a Life
shows the chase of that love
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In the light of this comment, discuss Brontë’s presentation of the
relationship between Jane and Rochester
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Rochester could be referred to as both Jane’s master and her pupil as,
although he has had a lot to teach her about the way of the world, she is
able to teach him about love and affection, which he hadn’t been able to
feel with anyone else
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Jane is able to
prove to him that love isn’t centered on beauty, but on the depth of feeling
towards the other person
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She proves to him that he doesn’t ‘have a right to command [her]
merely because [he] is older than [her]’ and this helps to open his eyes to
those who he would have before believed were below him in status
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Jane, however, is different, as he is shown when
he attempts to make her jealous by pretending he is going to court the
‘noble feature[d]’, beautiful and affluent Blanche Ingram
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She believes that Rochester
was ‘going to marry her’ but, rather than for love, she believes it is for
‘political reasons’ or something of that sort, which serves to give her hope
that he may return her feelings
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However, she was still able to prove to him that wealth and money
weren’t everything and that love does not have to follow in time, it can be
taken immediately if you are able to wish for it
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This implies that she believes that he is capable of
a love surpassing all of theirs, who have merely grown to believe that
wealth and money and society is everything important
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However, although Jane has a lot to teach Rochester, he also has a lot to
teach her as she is only eighteen when she enters Thornfield for the first
time and, therefore, has not managed to see much of the world
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However, although Rochester believes himself to be
superior due to his age and experience, Jane only believes that a ‘claim to
superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and
experience’
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Jane believes that ‘he
is not to them what he is to [her]’ and that while she loves him with her
whole heart, ‘they’ will only love him for what his money or status can
bring
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It is easy to ‘acknowledge her firmness’ and ‘feel
for her struggles’ as Jane is someone who has not been given the best lot
in life but will do anything to turn it around and make sure that she can
have a final chance a happiness, even if she has to be unhappy first
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Even though his
first wife, Bertha Mason, had been lost to him through a madness that ran
in her family, Rochester was more infatuated with her beauty than in love
with her wit
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Although she does leave him
in order to keep some of her femininity and her sense of women’s rights
and independence, Jane still believed that wherever he was, was her ‘only
home’ and the only place that she would ever feel truly loved and
cherished

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