Discuss the Victorian Age (Victoria and the Victorians) in relation to these characteristics
a. Propriety.
b. Age of doubt.
c. The woman question.
d. Age of Empire.
60%
2. Discuss the poem, “A Year’s Spinning.” Include in your discussion aspects of the Victorian Age and the following:
a. Aspects of the life of Elizabeth Browning.
b. Victorian ideal of femininity and its effects on women.
40%
3. Discuss the poem “The Epic [Morte d’Arthur].” Include in your discussion the following:
a. Tennyson as the poet of his age.
b. Anxieties and hopes of the Victorian Age.
40%
NB: By discuss I mean these:
1. Interpret
2. Analyze
3. Explore the issues that these poems raise.
4. Quote from the text to support your argument
5. Be as specific as possible. You really have to show evidence that you have read the texts.
Also: Don’t ever presume that your teacher knows or should know what you mean. You have to be specific; draw your examples
from the text, and EXPLAIN.
To the writer:
My English book is Masters of British Literature volume B . if you do not have access to the book you can read the poems
online
the following are the poems my professor would like me to draw examples from and use for the historical analysis
-About the Victorian Age pp569-590
-thomas carlyle, the Gospel of mammonsim (the iris widow) pg593
-John Stuart Mill pg601
-On liberty (poem) 602
Elizabeth Barett Browning pg613
-To George Sand pg615
-A year’s Spinning pg616
Alfred Lord Tennyson pg 635
The epic [Morte d’ Arthur]653
The womens Cause is Man’spg657
The higher Pantheism pg 701
Flower in the Crannied Wall 701
John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua pg 725
Mathew Arnold
“culture and Anarchy pg 874
