Defining Character: Solitude as a Litmus Test in “Mariana” and “Porphyria’s Lover” Victorian poets Robert Browning and Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson frequently structure their poetry as a dramatic monologue to gain insight into the mind and motivations of their characters‚ with the solitude that accompanies such dramatic monologues becoming a central focus of the work. Tennyson’s poem “Mariana” and Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” explore the relationship between solitude and individuality‚ in particular
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Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock explores both pity and revulsion‚ through the use of figurative imagery; a dead bird‚ maggots and the remaining bones. They are an analogy of the dead affair. With the use of figurative language the images are seen‚ smelled and heard. An authoritative voice is created to advise and command attention‚ through the use of instructive language throughout the six stanzas. Personification‚ analogy‚ rhetorical question and the way a word sounds‚ are also used
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Gender Roles in The Lover: A Ballad Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was one of the first female authors to write so boldly to the general public regarding her perception of women loving and marrying. Women understood exactly what men desired and expected of them‚ but did not appreciate game playing or the notion that society only approved men having casual encounters. With her short poem‚ The Lover: A Ballad‚ Montagu dictates how women should live and enjoy their youthful years in the same manner as men
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Alex DuBout Professor Stout ENGL 1301-8301 13 February 2013 The Lover: Blinded Romance A well-known famous French work of literature titled The Lover‚ written by Marguerite Duras‚ tells a forbidden love story between her as a young girl and a considerably older and wealthy man. The work was published as a book in 1984 which was later produced into a film in 1991. Ever since the reckless affair that Duras had with the rich man‚ the image of their love never dissipated from her
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“And the little room where they wrote out the terns was the scene of one of the poignant‚ dramatic contrasts in American History” (Catton). Bruce Catton described how America started from a new way of thinking. Catton’s purpose of comparing and contrasting Grant and Lee were to show how the men were both very alike because they were both American and different because of their ideologies. Catton’s purpose of comparing Grant and Lee was to show how close the Civil War was and how strong the leaders
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Mr. Whyte AP Literature 10 September 2012 “Porphyria’s Lover” 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
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stabilise the German economy and find a better system for paying reparations. The former Director of the US Bureau of the Budget Charles G. Dawes chaired the meetings and six months later the Dawes Plan was accepted. With the Dawes Plan in action the French troops were to withdraw from the Rhur‚ which they did in full by 25th August‚ 1925. When the Dawes Plan was written‚ it was thought to be a temporary plan which would be revised later. By late 1927 a revision was called for and on 16th
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As a stunningly beautiful work of art‚ "The Lover"‚ by Marguerite Duras‚ realistically and profoundly exposes the astonishing harmonization and clashing dissonance of love‚ sexuality and antagonism‚ memory and forgetfulness‚ emotions of happiness and dolefulness‚ and certitude of being desired. Memoirs of Marguerite Duras‚ as a reworking of the childhood in Indochina‚ intensely flowed out from her heart‚ artistically delineated into her novel and inextricably‚ bounded together and entwined with the
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In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ the center of the speaker’s focus is the beautiful‚ blooming girl called Porphyria. The speaker acknowledges the girl’s passion and contrasts her against the storm outdoors. I believe the emphasis on the raging weather is used repeatedly to create the feeling of stark opposites. Even though she is wet and cold‚ Porphyria is glowing with passion. She is a roaring fire inside the cozy cottage. Then pride and pain come into the picture and the emphasis is put on the moral responsibilities
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Porphyria’s Lover Context Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a Victorian poet‚ who is particularly famous for his dramatic monologues in verse form. Browning was born in London‚ to a family who relished literature‚ and he grew up surrounded by books. He wrote his first book of poems before he was 12 – but destroyed them as an adult to make sure no-one could publish them! Browning devoted himself to poetry‚ and initially had to live at home and be supported by his parents to do so. He married another
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