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Hope by Emily Bronte

Historical context

References

  • 1800's Victorian Era working class.
  • Widespread poverty with long working hours and low wages caused little hope.
  • 1834 amendment the "Poor Law" made conditions worse.
  • The most poor went to live in workhouses and received aid, although were in terrible conditions.
  • The Victorians were afraid of workhouses and rioted and attacked them.
  • Workhouses were called "Prisons for the Poor" by the anti-poor Law movement

People and poverty, 2013, BBC 22/11/2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/britishsociety/thepoorrev1.shtml

1834 Poor Law, 2002, The National Archives 22/11/2013

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lesson08.htm

Characteristics of Romantic Literature, n.d., unknown 23/11/2013

http://www.odessa.edu/dept/english/dsmith/rom.lit.char.pdf

Emily's Personal Context

  • Lived in Yorkshire, Northern England, and was most likely aware of the workhouses.
  • Was a romantic, and was concerned with the emotions of others.
  • Wanted to create an awareness of of hopelessness in the Romantic Era

Hope is enduring and should be a poem in the Norton's Poetry Anthology because;

  • It would have appealed to many audiences over various decades throughout history.
  • It's got a wide range of literary techniques.
  • It emulates the social and historical context of its Era.
  • It's a poem relating to society and it contrasts our societies idea of hope.

"Hope" Emily Bronte

Poem Summary

"Hope" by Emily Bronte

Published in 1864

Literary Techniques

Appeal

  • The poem is relevant to many audiences.

  • Enduring as a piece of literature because it allows the reader to relate no matter what age or gender.

  • Speaks about a well known emotion.
  • Personification - personification of hope as a woman

  • Juxtapositioning of hope - hope portrayed as a cruel and unrelenting figure.

  • Sibilance - 'S' sounds

  • Metaphorical Imagery

  • Repetition
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