Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters by Emily Brontë

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaringĪnd carried aloft on the wings of the breeze įor above and around me the wild wind is roaring,Īrousing to rapture the earth and the seas. Highlights: Anne- 'Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day' stanza 1

No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphereĪnd Faith shines equal arming me from Fear. Highlights: Emily- 'No Coward Soul is Mine' stanza 1 Highlights: Charlotte- 'Parting' stanza 6 Knowing that Charlotte worked as a Governess and put that experience into her novels, I found 'The Teacher's Monologue' interesting written from the perspective of someone living away from their home and longing to be there. Their words evoke the solitary lives they led as the siblings died. Similarly, Anne's poem, 'Last Lines' was written a few weeks after Emily's death. Charlotte's poems written after the deaths of Emily and Anne are affecting. Some of the themes of imprisonment and death are found in these poems and seem to be an echo of her later masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.Īnne and Charlotte's voices are less fervent but are full of longing and loneliness. The landscape is reminiscent of that found in Sir Walter Scott's writings, full of mountains and heather. Emily and Anne created an imaginary world of the island of Gondal and although their plays and stories have not been survived, some of Emily's poems in this edition relate to Gondal. Although these were the only poems printed in her lifetime, she wrote nearly 200 poems. Emily's voice seems to ring out the strongest to me, full of fervour, emotion and imagination. I couldn't help but compare the sisters' poems as I did so. I like to dip into a collection of poems. This new edition has arranged the poems by poet to reflect the sequence of the 1846 edition. Many of these appeared in the 1846 edition of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell which was published in London by Aylott and Jones. 2016 is the 200th anniversary of Charlotte's birth, followed by Emily (2018) and Anne (2020).ĭover Publications have reissued an edition of 47 of their poems which was originally published in 1997. There is a series of anniversaries coming up from 2016 for the Bronte sisters.

Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters by Emily Brontë