Comparing ideas of love in ‘Sonnet 29’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘Dusting the Phone’
I can compare how Browning, Rossetti, and Kay present ideas of love in ‘Sonnet 29’, ‘Cousin Kate’, and ‘Dusting the Phone’.
Comparing ideas of love in ‘Sonnet 29’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘Dusting the Phone’
I can compare how Browning, Rossetti, and Kay present ideas of love in ‘Sonnet 29’, ‘Cousin Kate’, and ‘Dusting the Phone’.
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Key learning points
- Browning, Rossetti and Kay all arguably depict an obsessive, all-consuming idea of love.
- Browning, Rossetti and Kay all potentially suggest how women’s lives are influenced by their relationships.
- However, the way in which the women’s lives are influenced by their relationships differs in each poem.
- Arguably, Browning’s ‘Sonnet 29’ presents love as natural and desired.
- In contrast, Rossetti arguably depicts how shame is associated with sex and Kay implies a lack of intimacy in sex.
Keywords
All-consuming - completely filling one's mind and attention
Shame - a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour
Implicit - suggested but not communicated directly
Common misconception
Society's attitudes towards female pleasure have completely changed since the 1800s.
While society's attitudes towards female pleasure are less extreme than in the 1800s, arguably there is still a sense of shame attached to female pleasure in modern society.
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- Depiction or discussion of sexual content
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