Comparing Porphyria's Lover 'And My Last Duchess'
How Do You Treat Love?
(An Analysis of The Comparison of Last and Lover)
Have you ever been in a relationship before? How did your lover treat you? In room 303 this semester, we have gone over many texts. One text we have gone over is My Last Duchess. Another text we have gone over is Porphyria’s Lover. After reading these texts, I realized that there are many similarities and differences. Death, jealousy, and the audience are three things that were either similar or different in these two poems.
The first similarity in both Lover and Last, was death. In both poems, someone dies in the end. Not only does someone die, but they are both the women who are killed. In Last, the Duke is looking for a new Dutchess because his last one has died. Another similarity is that both women were killed by their husband. In Lover, there is death as well. The woman was killed unexpectedly by her husband one night. In the poem he says, “In one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around.” (Lines 39-40) This shows that he decided to kill her by choking her with her own hair. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “There is always some madness in love. But …show more content…
In these poems, both men are jealous of what their women were doing. In Lover, there are many reasons as to why he killed her, and jealousy is one of them. When she arrived at the cabin, he thought that is was a possibility that he had cheated on him. That is why, then, he murdered her. In Last, the Duke was yet another man who was jealous of his woman. In the poem, he says, “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, whene’er I passed her; but who passed without much the same smile?” (Lines 43-45) Basically, he killed his wife because he was jealous that she was smiling at other guys. As William Penn once said, “the jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” This quote relates to this essay because both of the jealous men were troublesome to their
(An Analysis of The Comparison of Last and Lover)
Have you ever been in a relationship before? How did your lover treat you? In room 303 this semester, we have gone over many texts. One text we have gone over is My Last Duchess. Another text we have gone over is Porphyria’s Lover. After reading these texts, I realized that there are many similarities and differences. Death, jealousy, and the audience are three things that were either similar or different in these two poems.
The first similarity in both Lover and Last, was death. In both poems, someone dies in the end. Not only does someone die, but they are both the women who are killed. In Last, the Duke is looking for a new Dutchess because his last one has died. Another similarity is that both women were killed by their husband. In Lover, there is death as well. The woman was killed unexpectedly by her husband one night. In the poem he says, “In one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around.” (Lines 39-40) This shows that he decided to kill her by choking her with her own hair. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “There is always some madness in love. But …show more content…
In these poems, both men are jealous of what their women were doing. In Lover, there are many reasons as to why he killed her, and jealousy is one of them. When she arrived at the cabin, he thought that is was a possibility that he had cheated on him. That is why, then, he murdered her. In Last, the Duke was yet another man who was jealous of his woman. In the poem, he says, “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, whene’er I passed her; but who passed without much the same smile?” (Lines 43-45) Basically, he killed his wife because he was jealous that she was smiling at other guys. As William Penn once said, “the jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” This quote relates to this essay because both of the jealous men were troublesome to their