his silent listener device to make the reader think about the events that happened in the past that they can never fully understand. The reader is the silent listener who can not speak, even though they may wish to, and can not ask questions, just listen to the one- sided information that they are being told. Through his literary devices Browning always makes the reader wonder.Browning can be compared equally paralleled to one female and one male poet of the Victorian age. His wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (a more accomplished writer than he) had a unique style of writing compared to his, yet they still influenced each other and picked up techniques from each other. Alfred Lord Tennyson, his equal to greatness in the time period, wrote very differently than Browning, yet they were still often compared. Though the three all wrote differently they respected each other’s writings and benefited from each other. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an intelligent woman even though she had no formal education, unlike Browning. Elizabeth also loved to write about Romance. They used to write each other love letters when they were apart; today they are all compiled into a book (Edwards 27). Nearly six hundred letters passed between them, and these not only show the depth of feeling between the two poets, but also the close sympathy between two creative minds (Stack 13). Elizabeth wrote many Victorian Sonnets while Browning only wrote a few. The few that he did write were very similar in form to his wife’s. While Browning often wrote about the perils and complications of love Elizabeth mostly wrote about the joys and the beauty of it. There will never be a more perfect literary couple than Barrett and Browning.Browning was second to only one literary figure during his life, and that was Alfred Lord Tennyson. The major aspect in which the two poets were alike is that they both used the dramatic monologue accompanied with...
