In "A Rose...", Wm Faulkner first makes Miss Emily out to be this isolated sad woman that lost her father and lover. She then lived is isolation and the town felt sorry for her, after all, she was over 30 and still single...oh my! She was also known to have had a crazy aunt, so perhaps Miss Emily was crazy too. She did find love and happiness with Homer, but he was said to like men, but worse than that, he was a Northerner. This was definately not socially acceptable. The older men came to her funeral wearing their Confederate Uniforms. In Browning's Porhyrias Lover, there is some kind of unacceptance too. He wrote that she worshipped him, but he killed her. I think that she was dead before the poem began. I also don't think that he felt any remorse because he sid that even god didn't make a sound. Or, that was Brownings way of keeping it a secret, much in the same way that Homer was kept a secret by Miss Emily for so long.
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In "A Rose...", Wm Faulkner first makes Miss Emily out to be this isolated sad woman that lost her father and lover. She then lived is isolation and the town felt sorry for her, after all, she was over 30 and still single...oh my! She was also known to have had a crazy aunt, so perhaps Miss Emily was crazy too. She did find love and happiness with Homer, but he was said to like men, but worse than that, he was a Northerner. This was definately not socially acceptable. The older men came to her funeral wearing their Confederate Uniforms. In Browning's Porhyrias Lover, there is some kind of unacceptance too. He wrote that she worshipped him, but he killed her. I think that she was dead before the poem began. I also don't think that he felt any remorse because he sid that even god didn't make a sound. Or, that was Brownings way of keeping it a secret, much in the same way that Homer was kept a secret by Miss Emily for so long.
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