Question

As a respectable Victorian, Barrett Browning does not describe her love as —

a. a replacement for her lost religious belief
b. the equivalent of a search for justice and truth
c. a powerful physical passion
d. a quiet, everyday domestic companionship

Answer 1

As a respectable Victorian, Barrett Browning does not describe her love as (C) a powerful physical passion. Instead she equates her love to other occurrences, i.e. search for justice and truth, everyday companionship etc. In the Victorian age, women could not openly express the physical passion associated with love.