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    In 1842‚ Robert Browning published a book entitled Dramatic Lyrics‚ which was a famous work that contained a collection of dramatic monologues. Two of the poems found in this book were “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”. In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ Browning introduces a powerful insight into the demented mind of an extremely possessive man‚ while “My Last Duchess” tells a story about the Duke of Ferrara revealing to a guest the murder of his wife and the motives behind it. The two speakers share

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    madness being an inherently female characteristic - in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ it seems that traditional gender roles have been reversed in that Porphyria and her partner is entitled as her “lover”. In this sense‚ the ownership is put completely on her because Browning has chosen to entitle the poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’‚ using a possessive apostrophe. However‚ throughout the poem‚ the emphasis is put on her lover‚ rather than Porphyria‚ this‚ therefore‚ nullifies any preconceptions

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    Porphyria Lover by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue. Browning has used several poetic elements to engage the idea of his idea about the dark side of human nature. Form the title‚ Porphyria’s lover‚ Porphyria is a name given to a form of blood poisoning that causes dementia. Just by reading the title of the dramatic monologue‚ we can immediately tell that it is about a mentally ill person and his obsession towards his lover. The dramatic monologue is separate in two main parts which is when

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    certainly possible to make an issue and to make the audience well-aware of its own naivety by the use of an ambivalent title‚ as Elizabeth Bowen and Saki have tried to do with their respective short stories ‘The Demon Lover’ and ‘The Open Window’. The first tale yet‚ ‘The Demon Lover’‚ shows that it is not that difficult to put one on the wrong track. The title implies that it might be a ghost story‚ which was still very popular those days‚ but after a first lecture we can conclude that this is not

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    Lady Chatterley’s Lover‚ written by DH. Lawrence was first published in 1928. The novel follows around the protagonist of the story‚ Lady Constance Chatterley. The story is about how this woman‚ who is trapped in a loveless and almost sterile marriage‚ finds emotional and physical love with the gameskeeper of her husband’s estate. As a story about the relationships between men and women‚ I find this book a very nice read‚ but with Lawrence also using this novel as a way to show his readers the

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    Murder in the name of Love Comparisons and Contrasts of Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess Robert Browning was an author of two very eerie and dramatic monologues known as‚ Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. Although both poems have very related themes‚ they still contrast in ways that are too apparent to go unnoticed. You clearly recognize the similarities of both writings in the way that oddly enough‚ both point of views come from insecure men and they both irrationally kill the women they

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    Different But The Same (Comparing and contrasting My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover)     Robert Browning is one of the best writers when it comes to dramatic monologues. Dramatic monologue is a poem where a person is speaking to an intended audience about something that they feel strongly about. There are two questions that you ask when reading dramatic monologues they are: Who is the speaker? And who is the speaker speaking to? Robert Browning is known for some of the most influential dramatic

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    Robert Browning’s poems ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ are both about psychotic men who kill their lovers. However‚ the men differ in their motives as Porphyria’s murder could be considered to be done out of love whereas the dukes murder is one of jealousy. This heavily influences our feeling towards the two men‚ as the duke is a bitter misogynist compared to Porphyria’s ‘Tender murderer’. Dramatic monologue by definition is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the

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    Mike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer‚ and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However‚ through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements

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    last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s lover’ Robert Browning was born in May 1812 and died at the age of seventy. Browning was an English poet who has become known as the person to invent and popularise the dramatic monologue. This made him the foremost Victorian poet; two of his most successful dramatic monologues are those of ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. The reoccurring theme within the two monologues is murder as they show the idea of men killing a lover Dramatic monologues are significant

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