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Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetic style...?

I am doing a research paper on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and I need a thesis statement .. and the paper has to be about her work ... so i was wondering if you could give me a thesis statement to start my paper ... or just let me know what influenced her to write what she did.... THANK YOU!*


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I thought her name seemed familiar. I could probably tell you a few details about her that I learned in class. She apparently had no formal education but her craving for knowledge motivated her to learn 8 languages on her own. She also began writing poetry as a child. She was also very sick which made her a recluse. She met her husband, Robert Browning through correspondence and she was actually the more famous poet of the two in her lifetime. Most of her poems were about love.

As for style, we only discussed one poem of hers. The only characteristic carefully studied were the use of end-stopped lines, which end just where a speaker would pause, for a sing-song effect.