Elizabeth Browning and Robert Browning were both poets in their own right who met, fell in love and got married. It sounds like a literary fairy tale of some kind. I haven't read all of their poetry, or the poetry that they both wrote after they were married yet.
The poetry that we read from them this week in class was a rather interesting selection I thought. Rather than the lovey-dovey poetry you might expect from their life, the selections were far from that. Robert's poem was about a duke who may have killed his previous wife, probably for extramarital relationships. Elizabeth's poem seem liked she was begging for love and affirmation of love in a marital relationship. Do these peoms reflect real -life situations, as some of their other works doing (according to various literary sources online)? It would be interesting to find out . . .
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