To what extent is the narrator of ‘My Last Duchess’ a disturbing character? ‘My Last Duchess’ is a dramatic monologue written by the celebrated poet Robert Browning. Browning has structured the poem in rhyming couplets and with iambic pentameter. This creates a comfortable rhythm when read aloud. The poem is from the point of view of a Duke‚ and set in the 16th Century Italy. At this time men were very much in control of their wives‚ and viewed them as their ‘property’. This is shown frequently
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is shifting away from exclusively male to become inclusive of females‚ a contentious change that frightens males. The initial display of the speaker’s need for control becomes evident through examining the structure of the poem. Browning uses the dramatic monologue‚ which takes the form of a first person narrator presenting a highly subjective perspective of a story without mediation. With this writing technique‚ Browning creates a private atmosphere between the reader and the speaker‚ which allows
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his last duchess to an envoy of a nobleman‚ whose daughter he is planning to marry. Similarly‚ the contemporary woman in Gabriel Spera’s “My Ex-Husband‚” relates the details of her first marriage to the man in her new relationship. Throughout both dramatic monologues‚ jealousy‚ pride‚ and control blur the lines between illusion and reality. “Jealousy” The current of jealousy is evident throughout the dialogue. In “My Last Duchess” the Duke’s possessive nature rails at not having his wife’s total
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Analysis Robert Browning is a Victorian writer during the time of Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper inspires Browning’s Realistic art. In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ Browning’s style incorporates dramatic monologue along with Gothic influences to ridicule the concept of Romanticism. Browning writes the poem as a dramatic monologue to emphasize the uneasy feeling of the situation. The poem opens with the setting of a storm; a storm in which “the rain set…the sullen wind was…awake‚ [which] tore elm-tops for
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England with his son‚ where he achieved popular acclaim for his Dramatis Personae and The Ring and the Book. He spent the remainder of his life‚ excepting holidays in France‚ Scotland‚ Italy and Switzerland‚ in London where he wrote a number of dramatic poems. He died in Venice whilst holidaying in 1889 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. AMY LOWELL -Amy Lowell the daughter of wealthy parents‚ was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1874. After being privately educated
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The “Color Purple” and “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ a poem by Robert Browning‚ are very thematically similar. Both have very closely related but different examples to show the effects and the power of possession. The first example of possession in “Color Purple” is exposed in the relationship between Celie and the man she had grown up calling her “pa”. This man had treated Celie as one of his animals‚ acting as if he had owned her. After spending years of forcing Celie to do many of his duties‚ Pa (otherwise
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than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker and the story is told in a dramatic monologe. Another device I noticed is that Browning uses enjambment‚ this gives the poem rhythm and flow. To introduce the story‚ in the first sentence he hints towards death. Describing the Duchess‚ "looking as if she was alive." In a Fresco painting
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Duchess. Browning adopts numerous narrative techniques. Browning uses the form of a dramatic monologue to help the story progress. For instance ’That’s my Last Duchess’ shows that there is one speculator although there is an implied audience. The effect of this is that it shows that the poem tells a story that consists of much more than the words spoken by the one giving the monologue. To evaluate‚ the dramatic monologue makes it engaging with the reader. Additionally‚ Browning uses rhetorical
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Browning broke the mold of the Victorian writers by turning to dramatic monologue. Readers at the time could not appreciate his technique. Today some of his poems can be linked with authors such as Stephen King or Dean Koontz. Do his writings give us an insight into a hidden mad man? No. Robert Browning brought his characters to life and awakened the very real possibilities of the common man having a dark side. His use of persona and dramatic dialogue can be seen in “Porphyria’s Lover‚” and “My Last Duchess”
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