My Last Duchess Comparison

Compare Last and Lover
(An Analysis of Robert Browning’s Poems)

Have you ever read two different things and connected them together in a type of way? If so, that is exactly what we were supposed to do when it came to Robert Browning’s works. In “An Analysis of Two Poems”, by E.E Cummings he describes how two poems can be completely different, yet still connect to each other. This goes along with the way that we are looking at the two Browning poems. In the poem “My Last Duchess”, the speaker happens to be an Italian duke, who wants to marry this ambassador's daughter. He goes as far as showing the ambassador a painting of his last wife, and how he got her murdered because she did not give him what he deserved. “Porphyria’s Lover”, another poem by Robert Browning also is told by someone other than the author. This is a monologue that leads up to Porphyria’s death. These two poems are connected by three central messages. Both upper classes are in control, both of the women in the poems are murdered by someone that they loved, and jealousy. To begin, one of the main comparisons in Robert Browning’s poems “Lover”, and “Duchess”, has to do with both of the upper classes being in control. Porphyria and the
They both can relate in the fact that they are dealing with men of the lower class, and women of the higher class. They are the same type of men when it comes to both of them wanting to maintain their power. They also are kind of the same due to the fact that both of the women cherish and trusted these men, and then they betrayed them and killed theses women, because they were attracted to other men and they had other men attracted to them. In “CHaracteristics of a Controlling Personality”, by Stanley Loewen, it describes the kind of character that the men in both “Lover”, and “Last” had. Which relates the poems and this article