Mike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer‚ and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However‚ through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements
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gained prominence during the Victorian era for his dramatic monologues. Readers are continuously drawn in by the manipulation‚ murder‚ mystery and inner thoughts of a psychopath‚ all of which are evident in his more disturbing poems‚ ‘My last duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. Browning reveals the blurred lines between control‚ love and mental instability by using subtle techniques such as his choice in the form of poem and satire. Browning is able explore these controversial ideas in a conservative
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Two literary pieces by Robert Browning gave chilling imprints upon the readers. Reading the two text titled My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover are about two women killed by their partners. They are similar in that fact‚ but different in another. A main contrast is the way the women were killed. In Duchess‚ we do not know exactly how the duchess died; while in Lover‚ every detail is shared. Another important contrast is the difference in motive. Why did these men kill the women they ‘loved?’ In
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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heavy on my heart‚ but it too shall pass. I trust it will. Until then‚ however‚ I shall sit in agony‚ painfully awaiting a belated redress. But‚ my dear‚ we cannot wait passively. We must actively seek the tranquility we crave. Its whereabouts are a mystery; One which has evaded philosophers‚ scientists‚ and theologists alike. Indeed‚ I am no exception. I too know not where this mental ease hibernates. He lays quietly‚ almost tauntingly‚ undetected by the masses. My heart in
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poems Porphyria’s Lover’ and My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century?</b></center> <br> <br>Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842‚ he published Dramatic Lyrics’ which included the two poems Porphyria’s Lover’ and My Last Duchess’. In Porphyria’s Lover’ Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover‚ who wishes the
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning is pre-20th century poet who has written various pieces. We are looking at My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. Both pieces are very similar in more ways than one. The Lover in the poem Porphyria’s Lover is a lonely‚ depressed man who does not like Porphyria being with her family. In the end‚ this leads him to killing her. In My Last Duchess the Duke is a very selfish and wealthy man‚ he does not like the duchess smiling and being happy
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Last vs Lover A critical analysis over Last and Lover Robert Browning’s two dramatic monologues‚ My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover share several similarities and differences. He shows two distinct stories that shows the love between two people‚ and the qualities that led to the influence of both deaths. “There is no love without forgiveness‚ and there is no forgiveness without love” (Bryant H. McGill). This quote ties into both stories because the men lack one of the most important parts of
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It influences a story’s direction‚ the emotions invoked in the reader‚ and how themes are shaped into ideas. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess contain many thematic similarities‚ despite portraying different scenarios‚ primarily spoken through a possessive and jealous man. In Porphyria’s Lover a man waits in his cottage for Porphyria. Her arrival “shut[s] the cold out and the storm” both literally and metaphorically. Porphyria confesses her undying love
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called a homonym. In the poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover both by Robert Browning are very different yet very alike all at the same time. One example of these poems being very similar is that they are both about a jealous guy. Both of these guys got very upset that their lady’s attention wasn’t on them constantly. Both of these men ended up killing their woman out of pure jealousy. In My Last Duchess the speaker says “Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old
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