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*Audience Applause and Cheering*
Oprah: Good Morning everyone.
Audience: Good Morning!!
Oprah: Today we have a special treat for you all. What do you think comes to mind when you hear about the Victorian Era. For me, poofy dresses, Queen Victoria and Victorian Houses come to mind. In the Victorian Era, a common workday was from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for those employed in mills and as servants. Death rates were drastic back then with the life expectancy up to 51 for men and 55 for women (Victorian). This puts me older than most of the middle class! But also in the Victorian Era, poetry was very popular. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian Era whose poems were widely popular in England and the United States during her lifetime(Wikipedia). Creating just drastic poems such as "Cry of the Children", "Runaway Slave" "Song for the Ragged Children" "Curse for a Nation" and "Mother and Poet"; she will have you hunting to find the hidden motive, and emotionally attached to these poems.
Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Cimitero...
Elizabeth Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, photographed September...Without further adieu, Elizabeth Barrett Browning everyone!
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*Oprah shakes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's hand*
Oprah: Well thank you so much for coming EBB, mind if I call you EBB?
EBB: As long as I get to call you O?
*Audience Laughs*
Oprah: *Laughing* Go right ahead. Now EBB, I know most of us are wondering, what are you intent with these poems? The way you write them is so creative and interesting with the use of poems.
EBB: Well O, in "Cry of the Children", I used Rhyming Monologues. Those are 12 line stanzas with rhythm repetition. The first and third lines rhyme, second and fourth and so on. But in this poem especially, I really wanted to...