ily relations. This poem helps to expand on romantic poetry ideals. Hemans verse expanded on the traditional notions of Victorian women's poetry. She was the ideal women writer. Many of her other poems encompass the pure long-suffering female which Victorians idolised. This position allowed her to write poems that actually had deeper meanings. Hemans work turns her anger at society inward and romanticises death as the only solution. Heman writings commented on the social situations of the time. She insists that readers confront the violence of war, it's child martyrs and the female victims that suffer from their position in life.Hemans popularity wore off as time went on and her words were buried under the works of her male contemporaries. It is not until recently that her works have been resurrected and examined as literary texts of their own merit. The twentieth century reader uses these texts to analyse how gender functioned in the 19th century. By reading women writers of the time we are able to form a better view of what it was like to live and write in the 19th century. Another women who expanded on the traditional genres or romantic poetry is Jane Taylor. Taylor's poems like most of the poems of this time have a definite double meaning. She writes from the position of "happy fulfilled woman hood". In The Poppy and The Violet, Taylor uses the metaphor of a flower to symbolise women. In the Violet, the flower takes on many characteristics that women are expected to have. Words such as modest, lovely, bright, and fair are used to describe the flower. The flower knows nothing of this beauty and is content to bloom hidden away. Yet it was content to bloom,In modest tints arrayed;And there diffused its sweet perfume,Within the silent shadeThe use of nature is another example of how she expanded on notions of romantic poetry. She delves into the relationship between the poet and nature. This binary relationship reflects other relevant b...
