influenced him to question the values of the Victorian society? Well‚ the Victorian Era is a period after the Renaissance where people start to question different areas of the aspect of life. One major aspect was dominance of men. As seen through My Last Duchess‚ the Duke of Ferrara is portrayed as a condescending figure who has a very possessive and controlling nature through the quote “The curtain I have drawn for you” we see the Duke’s action as being inordinately possessive: no-one but he draws
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Comparison of the use of a dramatic monologue. In ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’‚ Browning uses several features of dramatic monologue in order to engage and sustain the interest of the audience. This style of monologue is spoken by a character‚ which is not the poet‚ and is usually projected at a critical moment‚ as in the case of ’My Last Duchess’ and ’Porphyria’s Lover’. The speakers unintentionally reveal their insanity‚ in both poems‚ through their separate accounts. By studying
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Browning similarly aims to subvert traditional beliefs - only this time of 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
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John Keats‚ “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ “A Mother in a Refugee Camp” written by Chinua Achebe and “Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy‚ all have one main feature in common‚ they are about love. Albeit these poems are about love‚ they were written in different time periods‚ ranging from 1609 to 1993. I have decided to analyse these poem because of the fact that these poems all have a similar theme‚ the theme of love but were all written in the writers’ own style. The poem “My Last Duchess” was
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In this essay‚ I would like to discuss one of Robert Browning’s more unsettling poems‚ "Porphyria’s Lover." The poem is a dramatic monologue of sorts‚ though different from Browning’s most famous dramatic monologue‚ "My Last Duchess." In contrast to "My Last Duchess" in which the Duke regales a Count’s envoy with tales of his former duchess‚ Porphyria’s lover is not addressing any other living person. Of course‚ this makes the monologue of Porphyria’s lover all the more dramatic. In keeping with
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How do men treat women in Porphyria’s Lover‚ My Last Duchess‚ Havisham and A Married State? In Porphyria’s Lover we see the views of a man and how he thinks that women are destructive. This is because in the poem the mistress is known a Porphyria‚ which is a type of deadly disease. I think that the poet‚ indirectly calling her Porphyria‚ is one big metaphor describing her to being deadly. Perhaps he thinks she is deadly because he is madly in love with her when maybe he shouldn’t be. Also the poem
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the boy’s injury‚ or death‚ because this might have happened before‚ or they just didn’t care for the boy. 3. Frost’s reference to Macbeth’ contributes to my understanding of “Out‚ Out-“that this poem’s theme is about death. From the reference to Shakespeare play‚ Macbeth‚ I can expect read about someone dying‚ an unexpected death. In my opinion‚ the theme of this poem is the cruel‚ emotionless‚ merciless relationships adults had with their children back then in America. Children weren’t given
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Love as an Entity There are different varieties of love‚ each with its own capabilities to invoke powerful emotions. An idealistic love is a form of love which in many ways is quixotic and lacking essential attributes‚ proof of which can be found in the works of Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Ralegh. Another potent form of love is pure love which is unconditional and timeless as expressed by Shakespeare and Elizabeth Berrett Browning. On a different note‚ a twisted love is flawed and bound
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endeavour’‚ or‚ later when he claims her ‘smiling rosy little head’ is ‘So glad it has its utmost will.’ Where we would expect this style in a novel‚ in this poem the effect is really very disturbing‚ not least because the woman’s voice (just as in My Last Duchess) is completely silenced by the narrator himself. The Form: here‚ again‚ Browning uses iambs‚ but in tetrameter (four feet per line – pentameter has five feet)‚ so
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