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the cry of the children
Posted by: annarita (---.pool8256.interbusiness.it)
Date: June 19, 2022 03:54PM
For my exams starting tomorrow I need to know what genre is THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN by Elisabeth barret browning.
Please help me because I need to know it to put it in a written work I have to give my professors tomorrow,
Please help me
Ann
Please help me because I need to know it to put it in a written work I have to give my professors tomorrow,
Please help me
Ann
Re: the cry of the children
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-04rh16rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: June 20, 2022 10:31AM
Of the three choices, lyric, narrative and dramatic, I also would chose lyric. It is addressed to an imaginary 'You', so some might argue for the genre of Ode, though it does not seem to me to be one.
There is also an obscure label of 'sirventés' to be considered. Do a Find for sirventés on the page linked below for what is described as an 'accusatory poem', expressing blame or reprehension. Is EBB expressing courtly love? Nope.
[www.litencyc.com]
Without knowing the particular textbook being studied, it is impossible to know exactly what answer is sought by Annarita's professor, who might just be looking for '12-liners rhyming abab cdcd efef with feminine odds and masculine evens'. Why are there 16 lines in the 4th stanza? I have no clue. If 13 twelve-line stanzas with an extra 4 lines in the 4th stanza is a genre, it is unknown to me.
Here is the poem, for those interested:
[eir.library.utoronto.ca]
For the Medea quote, I saw:
"This poem, by one of England‘s most famous 19th century poets, reflects Browning‘s anguish over the kind of lives poor urban children were leading in Victorian England, sentiments that Dickens himself obviously shared. Soon after —The Cry of the Children“ was published it became the cry of the liberal Victorian reformers. (The Medea quote is included as a reference to the anguish Medea felt when she realized that her husband‘s new marriage, which she was powerless to halt, was a threat to her children‘s very lives.)"
It is from the link below, but don't click on the associated page unless you have a fast connection, since it loads slowly in html and pdf is always a pain:
[tinyurl.com]
Is there a particular genre of poetry that indicates a spin-off from a quotation?
There is also an obscure label of 'sirventés' to be considered. Do a Find for sirventés on the page linked below for what is described as an 'accusatory poem', expressing blame or reprehension. Is EBB expressing courtly love? Nope.
[www.litencyc.com]
Without knowing the particular textbook being studied, it is impossible to know exactly what answer is sought by Annarita's professor, who might just be looking for '12-liners rhyming abab cdcd efef with feminine odds and masculine evens'. Why are there 16 lines in the 4th stanza? I have no clue. If 13 twelve-line stanzas with an extra 4 lines in the 4th stanza is a genre, it is unknown to me.
Here is the poem, for those interested:
[eir.library.utoronto.ca]
For the Medea quote, I saw:
"This poem, by one of England‘s most famous 19th century poets, reflects Browning‘s anguish over the kind of lives poor urban children were leading in Victorian England, sentiments that Dickens himself obviously shared. Soon after —The Cry of the Children“ was published it became the cry of the liberal Victorian reformers. (The Medea quote is included as a reference to the anguish Medea felt when she realized that her husband‘s new marriage, which she was powerless to halt, was a threat to her children‘s very lives.)"
It is from the link below, but don't click on the associated page unless you have a fast connection, since it loads slowly in html and pdf is always a pain:
[tinyurl.com]
Is there a particular genre of poetry that indicates a spin-off from a quotation?
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