The Death of Women in Wordsworth Byron and Poe
- ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Gina Kang (Creator)
- Institution
- East Carolina University (ECU )
- Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/
- Advisor
- Anne Boyd 1966- Mallory
Abstract: This thesis explores and analyzes the portrayal of women death and suffering through the experiences of male speakers in William Wordsworth Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. These poets create bereaved male speakers who mourn the loss of a dead woman in order to present themselves as male poets who are capable of showing intense emotions. While all three poets construct speakers who express suffering each does so differently each highlighting a different idea about the relationship between death and nature.
Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Literature, Romance, Literature, British & Irish
- Subjects
- Women--Death--Poetry
- Elegiac poetry, American
- Elegiac poetry, English
- Women and death
- Death in literature
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Literary style
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Literary style
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Literary style
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