Exaggeration, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Summary & Analysis

"Exaggeration" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning explores the tendency of human beings to exaggerate the challenges and hardships of life, often overshadowing the positive aspects and blessings that are bestowed upon them. The poem delves into the human inclination to magnify sorrows and difficulties, thus disregarding the goodness and beauty that coexists alongside challenges. Exaggeration by Elizabeth Barrett Browning WE overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination (given us to bring down The choirs of singing angels overshone By God's clear glory) down our earth to rake The dismal snows instead, flake following flake, To cover all the corn; we walk upon The shadow of hills across a level thrown, And pant like climbers: near the alder brake We sigh so loud, the nightingale within Refuses to sing loud, as else she would. O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood, The holy name of GRIEF !--holy herein That by the grief of ONE came al…