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My Heart and I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The diction in this poem creates two different tones. Pre-shift there is a rather aggressive tone, the poet almost complaining about the world. The poet ends the first and last lines if each stanza with "my heart and I" which contributes to the experiences the poet talks about pre-shift. The poet is aggressive in stating what complaints she has but it is mostly hidden in the words she uses. For example in the second stanza line 5 it states, "We" walked too straight for fortune's endWe walked too straight for fortune's end.", The poet uses "too straight" instead of just straight. The additional "too" shows how tired she is of what she experienced. After the shift the poet uses a more somber tone, the poet is more on the defensive rather than on the attack. The poet takes in the somber and almost mourns. She learns to accept the fact but still questions why there is so much sadness.

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In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "My Heart and I," the speaker contrasts remorseful diction with optimistic diction before and after the poem's shift to evoke tones of lament and hope. The speaker's employs remorseful diction with their use of "wish," "too" to indicate their regretfully excessive love, and "uncheered" that emphasize a gaping absence in the author's life. Specifically, "uncheered" connotes not only the speaker's sadness, but its "un-" prefix makes evident that the author's emotions stem from the lack of something that used to be rather than the presence of something, thereby instilling the pre-shift poem with a lamentful tone that captures the speaker's remorse over the death of their love. However, after stanza six, the speaker comes to a revelation and begins to see this death under a new, slightly more optimistic light. By using accepting diction like "enough" and "before," words that firmly relegate the the speaker's negative sentiments to the past, and words like "abundant" that hint not at an absence but the overwhelming presence of something, the speaker slightly elicits a tone of optimism through their emphasis the fixedness of the past and the presence and possibility of the present. Unlike the pre-shift stanzas of the poem, the final post-shift stanza communicates not a longing for something that no longer exists but an almost rejoiceful acceptance of its inexistence. In conclusion, Browning's "My Heart and I" uses remorseful and accepting diction to evoke tones of lament and optimism before and after the poem's shift.

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In "My heart and I" by Elizabeth Barrett, the speaker utilizes diction in the pre-shift to indicate feelings of frustration and sadness now that her husband has died with words like "tired, grey, tears, and indifferently". The diction in the beginning of the post shift is composed of some happier words and phrases as she remembers the memories with her husband, including "sunset, love, smiling, warm, and happy" but only briefly because she realizes that she will no longer have more moments like those with her husband.

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Elizabeth Barret Browning presents isolating diction as well as inspiring diction to convey tones of pessimism and aspiration within her poem, "My Heart and I". Browning evokes isolating diction by using words such as "alone, none, and un-cheered " when she describes feeling as of the present moment, which extends a sense of isolation and loneliness. This pessimistic tone is felt through the poem as the author describes her life as of her contemporary moment. However, the author does contrast her tone when stating "Yet who complains", signifying a shift in her tone to something more aspiring by using    reminiscing diction such as "Before, once, and fare" to describe her past as she laments on what she herself has experienced. Through the poem, the author offers a pessimistic tone to describe her current moment of life often using isolating diction to describe the loneliness he feels at heart, however, Brown offers a more aspiring tone when reminiscing on the past and coming to terms with the current state of her being.

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At first, Elizabeth Barrett is speaking in statements, describing her distain on the path  her heart and her have taken. She begins almost every fist line with some form of "we're tired, my heart and I". This gives the reader the impression that she has been feeling this way for a while because she uses that repetitive language. She also goes through and kind of chronologically tells the story of a love that she had but lost. Once she transitions from talking about what is missing, she shifts to a more dismissive yet progress based tone. This is seen in the change from explanatory to inquisitory remarks, "Yet who complains ? My heart and I ?"

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At first, Elizabeth Barrett is speaking in statements, describing her distain on the path  her heart and her have taken. She begins almost every fist line with some form of "we're tired, my heart and I". This gives the reader the impression that she has been feeling this way for a while because she uses that repetitive language. She also goes through and kind of chronologically tells the story of a love that she had but lost. Once she transitions from talking about what is missing, she shifts to a more dismissive yet progress based tone. This is seen in the change from explanatory to inquisitory remarks, "Yet who complains ? My heart and I ?"

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Browning's tone shifts in the poem generally between hopeful and pessimistic. Pre-shift diction like "grey, tears, and no use" indicates sadness and frustration. And in the context of the poem the full lines almost seem to show disdain. But post-shift the diction has words like "dear love, smiling, and happy languor" which all seem to show hopefulness and nostalgia.

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Browning uses repetition of words with sorrowful connotations like "tired" along with other words like "uncheered" to create a melancholy tone. The speaker doesn't have much hope for the rest of her life without the structure that her husband provided. In the last stanza, the speaker shifts to a slightly more hopeful outlook. The speaker reminds herself that she was "once loved" and somewhat accepts what she has lost.

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The diction used by Browning gives off a mournful and disheartening tone with the repeated use of the words "tired" to describe her and her heart. The words "tired", "scarcely", and "grey" imply hopelessness and a lack of motivation or positivity due to her loved one's death. The last stanza exhibits a shift in tone from the rest of the poem where it seems like she has fulfilled her purpose with the words "we've fared"

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In “My Heart and I”, the speaker uses a sorrowful tone to describe the past as they reminisce about their memories with the deceased loved one before the shift. After the shift, the tone switches to hopeless. Before the shift, the sorrowful tone can be painted through phrases such as “wish”, “grey”, “tears”, “old”, and “none” as they paint what the speaker’s state of mind is as they are processing the passing of a loved one. The speaker uses these words to describe how they will miss their loved one and how their world has changed to a more colorless one that does not feel lively in a sense. After the shift, the speaker’s diction changes to paint a hopeless tone as seen with the words “scarcely care” as they explain how nothing in the world would be able to recreate their feelings that they felt when they were with their loved one. Another case is when they state “We once were loved” expressing how they believe that nothing will bring them happiness. This all brings about a hopeless tone as they feel a sense of never being able to feel happy like they have before the passing of their loved one.

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In the poem My Heart and I, the speaker’s tone seems to be mournful and dejected, the repeat of the word “tired” and the phrase “my heart and I” makes the speaker feel tired and hopeless throughout the poem. Pre-Shift, the diction mostly consists of pretenses almost as if the speaker is looking back in the past with her referring back to someone she loved in the past. This gives the feeling of isolation with her being left alone in the world. Words such as “grey” “tears” and “uncheered” also help with this feeling of melancholy isolation seeing that she had left someone behind. After the shift in the final stanza, her tone shifts slightly, being more cheerful and thankful for being with the other person using words such as “fare”, “pretty child”, and “blue heaven”. This gives onto the notion of her appreciating what the person who had passed offered her and that remembering those experiences give her hope and happiness.

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In order to live freely, one should untether themselves from the past by accepting the past's fixedness and appreciating, rather than longing for, its gifts??

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Although the poem seems to be mostly about the difficulties the speaker is facing, both internally and socially, after losing her husband, the poem touches on the ideas of mortality as well as the meaning of life. Or rather, the speaker seems to have lost this meaning following her husband's death and feels lost.

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This poem seems to be showing the different experiences a person can have when reflecting on their past and how no matter how frustrating parts are its important to look back at the good too.

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Although the author seems to be dwelling in the moment of someone’s passing, her acceptance of that in addition to her also appreciating the moments and love they had for one another seems to lead to the idea of appreciating the past for its fortunes rather than dwelling in what could have been. This is important to discuss because a lot of people have dealt with losing a loved one in their life, but instead of dwelling and wishing what could have been, it is better to remember and appreciate all of the time and experiences each one had with one another and have a more positive outlook.

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The speaker is mourning the loss of her husband in the 19th century. At the time, women relied on their counterparts for structure in their lives. Without her husband, the speaker sees no purpose in trying to rejoin society and continue on with life. She is exhausted and devastated, but the shift towards the end of the poem suggests the theme that accepting the past and what is lost is the only way forward. Another concept that the poem might be suggesting is that in order to make our own decisions and destiny, society needs to be less reliant on others for their needs.

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The speaker of the poem is mourning the passing their loved one and begins to feel hopeless near the end of the poem as they talk about how they won't feel the same happiness they felt before. This could hint to the idea that an individual should be able to look back at their past but try to do so in a good manner and try and learn from it instead of hoping to go back to that time because that is something that isn't possible. Therefore people should try and look forward and learn from their past and try and not dwell on it.

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Elizabeth Barrett Brown proposes the theme of acceptance of the past and present for what it is or was. She often reminisces in her past, dwelling in heartache of the present. It is key that in order to relief the heartache of the present, one should let go of the past and accept the present by understanding that you have done all you can.

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In the pre-shift the poem begins with a sad and painful tone with the use of the words "tired", "fortune's end" and grey. She mourns the pain of a loved one and describes the heartache she feels. The shift in the last stanza shows the speaker accepting what has occurred and hopeful to a more positive future. She is no longer dwelling in the past so much.

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The poems is about a women who has lost her husband and her connection so having social status. She wishes she was the one dead and not him because now she does not know how she is going to continue with life. Although in the end it is seen that she comes to accept her new life even if she doesn't really want to. Therefore the theme would be to accept that the past is the past no matter how much big the pain may be but it is better to live in the present.

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In the poem My Heart and I, the speaker’s tone seems to be mournful with sorrowful diction. The repeat of the word “my heart and I” and “tired” shows that the speaker is grieving over the loss of her husband throughout the poem. This follows the mournful tone it sets. Words such as “grey” and “uncheered” that she could be in this melancholic state after the passing. There is a shift in the final stanza, the tone is a bit more cheerful and is grateful for having her husband for being with her and using words such as “pretty child” and “blue heaven”.

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I think the theme of the poem could be about trying to be grateful for the things you have. The speaker misses her husband but is grateful for him being in her life. As people live their lives, things and people come and go and it is important to recognize that things are going to leave the world and you have to value the experiences you get with them. recognizing the mortality in the world is important when facing life.

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In the poem "My heart and I' by Elizabeth Barrett, she uses diction to show the tone of sadness that she is feeling. She is also emphasizing how frustrated she is. The first word she uses is "ENOUGH" which can be seen as her yelling and getting tired. She mentions a lot about being tired and how she feels, how other people also see her. Through out the poem she mentions how there has been strain put on herself; however, towards the end she has more of a calming tone. She mentions how they were once loved and how she thinks that her heart and her have "fared". It kind of shows a realization of how there has been strain; however, it has not always been like that.

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I think that one big idea worth discussing is how she comes to this realization that there was not always a strain and how she was once loved. I think this is important because it shows how life can change and it is not always going to be stuck on a certain time and how time flies. One it could have felt so sweet, but now it may not be like that. Kind of like looking back and realizing what has happened.

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Within the poem it uses repeating words such as "tired," which is direacted to her herself, giving us her state of distress and mourning. Even words with more of a difference in meanign such as viewed positive are represented negative in her outlook, words such as "thrilled" and "fancies" are now a negative for her in which she direacts it towards future men or future partners. She then begins to remember her past partner in a past memory but this signifies the post shift as she now says "now tired" that after her event of her partner (death) she was now saddened. During this post shift she goes on using words as "crusted, " " loose gems, " "unkissed, " and "scarcely care". With these words she emphasizes her current state in which she can't experience her past with a partner again no more, such as her use in unkissed even to explain the loose gems to men, that it is not the same anymore and she won't have that love again. This idea goes on as well with the last detailed word used "once" and "fared, " she uses words like this to explain her heart once again but also the situation of her love in these terms, it's as if she gaven to the idea that she will not expierience this love like her last partner ever again.

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I believe the theme is love is different. To emhpasis I mean a love for a person will never be the same as love for another person, you'll only experience a set of action or feeling from that person, it could never be replicated as the same with another. I think it is worth discusing to give us individuals just a thought of really anything that is or not relevent to love, that each one of us is different whn it comes to relationship, experince in life, or experience in love, that everything is different nothing between a person is never the same.

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I think the big idea is that love is more painful then initially thought. The bliss that happens in the beginning of a lovers' relationship can soon turn into the somber nature of life and the pain that comes with it. The speaker realizes that though she went through much, she still feels as though she faired well in overcoming the pain in the past experiences with love, obstacles, and friendships. The speaker is almost going through the journey of her life and each times they say "my heart and I", it shows that they have moved on from that. This is worth discussing because acceptance can be very hard especially when young, sometimes you just have to accept that things have passed and be proud of yourself.