Themes about change1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I am your friend still – time has not estranged Meredith invented the 16-line extended sonnet for his sequence, used here to reflect on how Meredith woke up to find he had a very different attitude to his marriage than he previously did…Ĭhanged? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed. Shall I, unsustained,ĭrag on Love’s nerveless body thro’ all time?Īnother Victorian poem, this time from one of the most significant sonnet sequences of the Victorian period: Modern Love (1861), written by George Meredith (1828-1909) following the breakdown of his marriage. The wretch condemned, who has not been arraigned,Ĭhafes at his sentence. It’s difficult to tell whether Barrett Browning’s speaker accepts this inconstancy from her lover or whether she is simply acknowledging it as a fact and regretting its existence (or even sarcastically sighing that men are fickle).īut where began the change and what’s my crime? ![]()
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