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F. De Samara to A. G. A.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2023
Entity authorityQ5423866 ↗
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F. De Samara to A. G. A. is a poem by British author and poet Emily Jane Brontë, written on November 1, 1838.

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Historical context

1838 was a year that saw the UK demand universal suffrage, and the beginning of the Second Central American Civil War. At the time of writing, Emily was two months into her new teaching job at Law Hill girls' school, in Halifax.

Gondal references

The title of the poem makes reference to two characters from Emily's imaginary childhood island of Gondal, a place which she invented and wrote short stories about along with her younger sister Anne. Gondal was a kingdom ruled by the powerful Queen, Augusta Almeda, to whom the poem is written, from another character, Fernando De Samara. Gondal was often at war with its rival nation Angria – another imaginary island and country, created by Emily and Anne's two siblings Branwell and Charlotte.

When read in this context, F. De Samara to A. G. A. reveals Fernando De Samara's last words to his beloved Queen Augusta, as he commits suicide for her sake.

Poetic techniques

Linguistic techniques

Suicide, as a theme, is evident also from the use of vivid imagery, as well as the heavy-hearted tone conveyed through Emily's use of caesura and interjection.

Structural layout

The poem uses thirteen stanzas, constructed using an AABB rhyme scheme. This is a conventional style of writing poetry, upon which Emily's mark can be seen in the way certain lines lack the required rhyme.

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This entry incorporates text from “F. De Samara to A. G. A.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.