Robert Browning and the Dramatic Monologue Celebratons honoring the bi-centennial of Robert Browning’s birth are taking place on each side of the Atlantic. In late June‚ a conference sponsored by the Browning Society of London focused on a particular aspect of Browning’s work–the dramatic monologue. For those who are unfamiliar with the term‚ the following definition is offered. M. H. Abrams‚ one of the general editors of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and a respected American critic
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Examine the treatment of women in Porphyria’s lover It would be easy to assume that women in Victorian England were treated badly. However‚ “Porphyria’s lover” suggests that his idea springs from society’s control of women. At the start of the poem‚ Porphyria has freedom and control but as the piece progresses‚ it is clear that this freedom and control is curtailed by her lover who contains and incarcerates her through death. As a result it can be argued that Browning’s purpose was to warn women
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In The Lover‚ Marguerite Duras tells the narrative from the point of view of the protagonist‚ a fifteen and a half year old‚ high school student in Indochina whose French dysfunctional family was bound in poverty. The father was dead‚ an older brother whom she fears and a younger one whom she deeply loves‚ and a mother whom she loves but pities and dislikes at the same time. The narrator has a strained relationship with her mother whose favoritism for her older son and alternating support and abuse
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THE COMPANY OF LOVERS: JUDITH WRIGHT Judith Wright’s 1946 poem "The Company of Lovers" makes a juxtaposition of two essential forces of major impact upon human existence‚ the effects of love and those of death. Within the poem it can be noted that the two stanzas reflect each of the certain themes. The first‚ a universal description of love and the ambitions two lovers might have‚ whilst the second a reflection of how quick all may soon be lost through the loneliness of death. Wright is renown
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“Porphyria’s Lover” to express the hidden depths of the speaker’s mind while still leaving
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4 July 2011 Essay #2 Porphyria’s Lover Paranoia There are many physical and mental diseases Americans encounter each day. Some sickness is more serious than other. One mental disorder is paranoia. Paranoia is when the patient becomes a prey to premature delusion. The disease the cause of delusion is internal‚ and not hallucination is involved. The main symptom is permanent delusion. In paranoia the symptoms of delusion appear gradually‚ and the patient is sentimental‚ irritable‚ suspicious‚ depressed
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“Porphyria’s Lover‚” which first appeared in 1836‚ is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning’s dramatic monologues. The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside. His lover‚ a blooming young woman named Porphyria‚ comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage. She embraces the speaker‚ offering him her bare shoulder. He tells us that he does not speak to her. Instead‚ he says‚ she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures
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Educational Series‚ 1993). At the time this letter was written Lawrence was fictionalizing his relationship with his mother‚ as well as the rest of his family‚ in the novel Sons and Lovers . In the novel the Lawrences would be named the Morels‚ but though the names are different there are many parallels between Sons and Lovers and Lawrence’s own life. These parallels are what make the novel truly autobiographical. However‚ the strongest evidence of the autobiographical nature of this novel exists in the
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An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife By : Richard Crashow Richard begins his poem with addressing lovers who are dead and whom death gathered them one more time‚ or‚ as it were‚ wedded them again‚ and this is a metaphor‚ in which‚ he resembles dying together to get married again. The grave that the lovers are in is the second marriage-bed‚ this is also a metaphor. The lovers will fade away‚ for separating soul and body is the fate’s job which is : obligatory; however‚ desting can not sever
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Threw out history there have been animal lovers‚ who would do almost anything to show his or her affection for the animal he or she cares for. In ancient Egypt people treated cats and dogs as if they were gods. They would build sculpture and huge statues to idolize and worship them. Now‚ in modern time‚ we can see some people have a similar action toward there pets. Some of these people who love their pets are willing to give these animals almost anything‚ no mater what it cost them. It has been
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