I am in Victorian Era in this week!

This week, I really enjoyed reading poems of Victorian period. I liked Elizabeth Browning's poem and Tennyson's " The woman's Cause is Man's" which taled about man and woman's relationship and love. Even these poem was written more than hundred years ago, peple can still share alike feeling and situation. I think it is great and that is the temptness of poetry.
Then, I had trouble with understanding Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" so I had to read over and over. This story had some ambiguous parts, so I had to think what each word mean and what he was trying to say. It was little hard but it was fun to creat own imagination and think people's thought in this period.
Matthew Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman" gave me negative impact about religion in this period. I felt same thing as Blake's "Garden of Love" too. So I wonder how people had different view as today and in that period.
As going through reading the English literature, I felt I need to learn much more background and history of those period.
I have never studied English literature before, so it is very interesting for me!!

I am ready to read new story of this week but I am not ready for the essay 2 yet....