ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S LIFE AS REFLECTED BY HER SELECTED POEMS

This study aims at finding the reflection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life as seen in her selected poems. Moreover, this study designs to find out the meaning of Elizabeth Barrett Browning poems and the reflection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life is her poems. This study is qualitative descriptive since the data are collected, analyzed, and described in the form of words rather than numerical scores or statistics. The study is descriptive because it tries to describe the reflection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life. The data of the research are sentences in every stanza of the poems. This study has one primary data source which is the six selected poems and taken from the Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s biography. Meanwhile, six selected poems reflect Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life. In the first poem “How Do I Love Thee (1850),” this poem tells about her life when she felt happy after marry with someone who she loves. The second poem “A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed (1845),” this poem tells about her feeling of scared when she has to face the death alone. The third poem “A Curse For A Nation (1860),” this poem tells about her sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak of fighting. The fourth poem “The Cry Of The Children (1842),” this poem tells about child labor, she want to abolish slavery and child labor in England. The fifth poem “Exaggeration (1845),” This poem tells about her life when she wants to give spirits for her sisters and for her brothers. And the last poem “Irreparableness (1845),” this poem describes about her expression of sadness. The research result shows that Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems are varies, there are: happiness expression, sadness expression, and sympathy expression. In happiness expression there is a poem entitled ‘How do I love thee’. In sadness expression, there are poems entitled ‘A thought for a lonely death-bed, Exaggeration, and Irreparableness”. In sympathy expression, there are poems entitled ‘A curse for a nation and The cry of the children’.