Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Browning came from a wealthy family and lived in Jamacia. Since her family was wealthy she took advantage of this and educated herself, which unordinary for women during this time. She was very ill throughout her life, it only got better when she was in warm climate. It seems as if after reading the backgrounds of the different poets that they have all of these catastrophic events happen to them in order for them to write good poetry. Like Browning for example her father did not want any of his children to marry and she eloped and the father never talked to her again, her illness, and her mother dying when she was young. It is as people with happy childhoods, or people with both parents living did not write good poetry.

But my favorite poem of Browning's was Aurora Leigh. Which basically was a tale of a young woman as she discovered herself and who she was it took us from her childhood through her education, to when she discovered poetry, and her life. This poem was supposed to be a self potrait. It even talked about her love life.
Then, must it be
Indeed farewell? And was I so far wrong
In hope and in illusion, when I took
The woman to be nobler than the man,
Yourself the noblest woman, in the use
And comprehension of what love it,--love

In this stanza Romney was responding to Aurora's rejection of him. He was a married man and was still seeking fulfillment outside of his marriage, and Aurora was not interested in a man who belonged to someone else, she felt it to be wrong.