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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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    meaning‚ sound‚ and rhythm” (Merriam Webster). The lyrics of “Lover Dearest”‚ by Josh Ramsey‚ fit this definition perfectly. “Lover Dearest” is a love letter written about heroin addiction; the speaker uses metaphor‚ pessimistic tone‚ and revealing diction to convey his desperation. “Lover Dearest” uses a metaphor to compare drug addiction to romance. The speaker professes his distorted love for heroin as if the drug were his lover.

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    Both stories‚ My last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover can be similar‚ yet different in many ways. But‚ let’s begin by saying‚ that the author of both stories was‚ Robert Browning. Browning used dramatic monologue in many of his works he wrote. Needless to say‚ Browning is one of the great Victorian poets‚ writing his shorter dramatic monologues like My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. In his literary forms‚ he used “poetic” language and used dramatic dialogue to reveal character in both stories. There

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    An Analysis of Human relationship in Lady Chatterley’s Lover Devid Hurbert Lawrence’s novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is essentially about human relationship. It is all time human concern. It is a story of discovery‚ a journey‚ towards a balanced approach in which mind and body are equally valued. Lawrence‚ in his novel writing‚ is mainly concerned with human relationships. In words of David Daiches “with Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Lawrence returned to the central theme of his earlier

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    laughter‚ all are like a thin layer of rubbish that [she] gathers up and throws into the basket" (9). In A.B. Yehoshua’s novel The Lover‚ Asya utilizes dreams to release her inner-tensions. Yehoshua employs Asya’s dreams as symbolic‚ prophetic mechanisms that parallel the subtle‚ emotional conflicts within the characters and her self. Once Asya is deprived of her lover‚ Gabriel‚ she is consumed by his absence and immediately begins to dream about him. The first of Asya’s dreams described in the novel

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    Lauren Smith SMITH 1 9/25/2012 World Literature 1113 1:30 Dr. Jacob Lewis 010559587 “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” Even though a man can do much harm to a woman’s ego‚ mind‚ and body‚ there is always something about the man that can lead her back into his arms. The poem “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” by Veronica Franco demonstrates just that. Franco goes on to describe how she has been lied to and cheated on by the love of her life. Yet‚ towards the

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    Women in 19th Century British Poetry Response: "Porphyria’s Lover‚" "My Last Duchess‚" and "The Leper" The feelings about women in the Victorian period were very disheartening. Women were seen as objects and viewed as less than human. These views were upheld by men who perpetuated a women’s place in society as a pretty thing to look at and nothing more. When a man was tired of her or felt like he could not possess her completely he could kill her as the only way to ensure that she is his forever

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    dreams to the nature of art and even the meaning of existence.” His poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess‚” are similar in that they both include murderers who coldly describe their evil deeds without any remorse. “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ begins with a lover describing the arrival of Porphyria‚ and then it quickly descends into a description of her murder at his hands. He describes how he strangled his lover with her own hair to preserve the moment forever. The poem “My Last Duchess” also echoes

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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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    Deadly Woman or Lonely Lover? The story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was written in 1930’s‚ a time where if a woman was alone or had no company they were frowned upon or looked in another light. Emily Garrison showed tendencies of a lonely women looking for companionship after her father’s death. She became secluded away from the rest of the town‚ “After her father’s death she went out very little”. According to Crime Museum being antisocial can cause someone to become a killer. Miss

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