The Genius of Aurora Leigh Essay -- Aurora Leigh Essays

The Genius of Aurora Leigh   Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses multiple elaborate metaphors and comparisons to designate vivid imagery that actively involves her audience in her verse apologue Aurora Leigh.   The first pages of this work quickly establishes this extremely effective rhetorical imagery and quickly captures the readers attention, making it a chore to be divert from reading this famous work. She begins with the metaphor, which likens writing this novel to better herself as when you key fruit your portrait for a friend, (Longman p. 1863 l. 5) and it continues to connect the past and present for that friend. The imagery is so real that the reader quickly becomes completely enthralled within the man Browning is describing. Just twelve lines into the work, she masterfully creates a tender and tranquillise scene of an infant smiling in its sleep, due to its understanding of the inexhaustible nature of life. Then broadening the view of the scene to include the argus-eyed mother outside the nursery, calming the household to insure the continued nonbelligerent rest of the infan...