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    Poems ‘The laboratory‚ the content of the play‚ from my point of view is about a woman whose partner has left her for another woman. The poet has planned to kill the other woman as she is jealous of her and wants revenge from her ex. We can tell she is jealous of this other woman as she says she’s not little‚ no minion like me!’ this shows she is jealous of the woman as she thinks she is of higher status‚ the words ‘she’s not little’ shows this. She thinks the other woman is better than she is.

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    possibly be surprised by its successor‚ the G3. After all‚ we’re ready for it now; expecting great things from it‚ even. Plus‚ with phones of the calibre of the HTC One (M8) and Samsung Galaxy S5 already on the shelves‚ it faces tougher competition than last year’s model. That’s the theory at least - but it’s all rubbish. Because somehow‚ the G3 has surprised us again. It’s surprised us with its pixel-crazy 2K screen‚ with its bezel-less design‚ with its lovely metal-that’s-really-plastic build. And

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    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

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    only memories of these people are the photographs that the war photographer took. This is idea of worthlessness is carried on in the poem ‘Not Waving but Drowning’‚ by Stevie Smith. The lack of emotion in ‘Not Waving but Drowning’‚ ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Laboratory’ link to the apparent worthlessness of the deceased and can be perceived as pride. The suffering and grievance of the friends and family the dead people leave behind is presented in the poems ‘Do not go gentle into

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    dramatic monologue‚ the poet‚ like an actor in a play‚ speaks through the voice and personality of another person. Robert Browning wrote many different dramatic monologues such as those three particular poems which are known as‚ “My Last Duchess‚ Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory.” The reason why Browning wrote his poems in that particularly dialogue is because of the certain century it was produced. It was brought out during the Victorian. In that century woman where treated differently then men. It

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    The poetic voice in Robert Browning’s ‘My last Duchess’ is Alfonso II D’Este. The speaker is presented as rich Duke who is very full of himself “My nine hundred year old name.” Throughout the poem the speaker is trying convince the Count of Tyrell that he is a worthy person to marry his daughter. This poem is a dramatic monologue because the only speaker in the poem is Alfonso. Browning uses Iambic Pentameter as the metre to create a sense of natural speech; this makes the poem avoid sounding

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    Discuss Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ as a Dramatic Monologue A Dramatic monologue is a form of poetry where the speaker in the poem gives the readers a deep insight into his thoughts. It is different from a soliloquy since a dramatic monologue always has an implied audience. Dramatic monologue although originated well before the 19th century‚ it was popularized by Victorian poets like Browning‚ Tennyson and Dante Rossetti. Browning has experimented with this form of poetry to such depths that dramatic

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    Explore the ways Robert Browning uses symbolism and figurative language in “My last Duchess” Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” was written in 1842; one of the first of his many dramatic monologues. This poem largely focuses around one narrative voice who we suspect as the Duke of Ferrara; giving the emissary of his prospective new wife a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of a woman‚ explaining that it is a portrait of his late wife; he describes her flirtatious

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    "My Last Duchess" is one of the most understood sonnets composed by Robert Browning. Browning is still recalled today because of the dramatic monologue of "My Last Duchess". The setting of the lyric is the living arrangement of Duke of Ferrara. The "Duke" is the speaker/storyteller in this sonnet‚ it’s a discussion between the duke and a hireling of the Count. The fundamental graceful gadgets in this lyric is: imagery‚ representation‚ and similar sounding word usage. In this sonnet imagery was

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    "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning‚ frequently anthologized as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning’s Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of his prospective new wife (presumably a third or fourth since he Browning could have easily written ’second’ but did not do so) a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of

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