March 20- Aurora Leigh

Laura is gone traveling the world.... so Kirstyn is teaching us today and next week!

"Never flinch,
But still, unscrupulously* epic, catch -daring
Upon a burning lava of a song*, -not purely of the imagination
The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age:
That, when the next shall come, the men of that
May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say
'Behold,–behold the paps we all have sucked!
That bosom seems to beat still, or at least
It sets ours beating. This is living art,
Which thus presents, and thus records true life."
-- This stanza represents the personification of poetry and its gradual movement to the next generation of poets. The language of the stanza complicates the reader's understanding of the stanza because it does not directly reference poetry. The poet as a living historian, using the past and the present to form new ideas.

Question 2: Can there be heroes in modern life? According to the poem? According to you?
--I think that there can be heroes in modern life. People who choose to help others with out thought or how it might affect them. I think that people in the military are heroes because, at the drop of a hat, give up their lives to defend our freedom and country. According to the poem, I think that Elizabeth Barrett Browning thinks that there can be modern heroes just in literature and as authors and poets.