Analyze Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess" using the criteria for "good poetry" set forth by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in AURORA LEIGH. Please point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Here are two excellent university websites that give directions for reading poetry well and then writing about what you have read. Please read both carefully and apply the ideas.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/markport/best/study/poetry.htm

Your task will not be one that is done quickly. You must go through EBB's poem first and identify the "criteria for 'good poetry'" -- and THEN go through RB's poem and analyze it according to what you discovered in EBB's poem.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html

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