A Witty Comparison The two poems‚ “My Last Duchess” and “My Ex-Husband” each have their own unforgettable stories to tell‚ but are they really that different from each other? They each have their differences‚ but the similarities are there too that make them easy to compare to one another. The narrators show their feelings for the one that they initially lost‚ and tell the story of what had happened. When cheating‚ killing and inner secrets come out‚ then you start to see what really happened.
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Compare the ways that authors present the speakers in their poems. My Last Duchess‚ by Robert Browning and Poem at Thirty-Nine‚ by Alice Walker. These are poems that revolve around grief and pride. In My Last Duchess the speaker is a very proud duke with years of honour and power to his family name but his duchess shows no respect to anything he has given her. In Poem at Thirty-Nine the speaker is a lady that didn’t show enough respect to her father when he was alive but when she lost him she grieved
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Written in 1842 by Robert Browning‚ "My Last Duchess" is the dramatic monologue of the duke of Ferrara who is negotiating his second marriage through an agent of the count of Tyrol on the grand staircase of the ducal palace at Ferrara in northern Italy. Executing the elements of a dramatic monologue‚ the duke reveals his situation and much more than he intends to the both the agent and the reader. Using iambic pentameter AABB couplets Robert Browning reveals the horrifying story of the murder of
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main characters are Smitty and Duchess. They both meet each other at the YMCA dance and introduce each other from there. Smitty and Duchess will not end up together at the end because they both are living their lives on lies. By way of example‚ Duchess asks Smitty with an attitude: “Ain’t you going to drive me home‚ Smitty” (Armer‚ Grauman 1)? Smitty responds politely : “No‚ I got to catch the 12:30 cross-town” (2).Considering this Smitty never offered to give Duchess a ride home so clearly does not
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Henry VI‚ who was also known as the Red King. His ineffectual ruling sparked a rebellion for those in line for the throne. His queen‚ Margaret of Anjou tried to save her throne but quarreled with those in her court‚ such as the Duchess of York. The animosity between the Duchess and Queen Margaret created a barrier between the two Houses for the throne. The two houses were identified by their crests: a red rose for the House of Lancaster‚ and a white rose for the House of York. The painting of the roses
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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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My Last Duchess By Robert Browning Submitted to: Mrs. Parsons Gill Submitted by: Jenny Dewland Date: September 24th 2012 English 2201 1. The title of the poem being “My Last Duchess” refers to the Duke of Ferrera’s late wife‚ in which he has recently been widowed due to her unknown death. As we read the title‚ the use of “MY Last Duchess” provides the fact that the poem is being told in first person‚ being the Duke himself. In the poem‚ he is having a showing of this beautiful painting
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the case of the Duke in Browning’s; My Last Duchess‚ the goal is to obtain the approval of marriage. In his quest for approval the Duke puts on a display of power and control in an effort to mask his true emotions‚ which were brought out by his last duchess. The Duke did not know how to control the free spirit of his last duchess for she enjoyed attention that she received from other men. This inability to control the looks and smiles of his last duchess made him vulnerable to betrayal and left him
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The lovers in Last Duchess by Robert Browning and also Porphyria’s Lover have many similarities and differences that change the stories to make them more creative. The story of Last Duchess by Browning is about how a man talks about his last wife and why she isn’t here anymore. While Porphyria’s Lover by Browning tells the story of how a man kills his lover with her own hair. In both of these stories they explain the mental instability of the two lovers who see and only become jealous. Then there
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