shadowy‚ dark head‚ like mine‚ seemed to nod imperceptibly above the ghostly gray of my sleeping suit. It was‚ in the night‚ as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense mirror"( The Secret Sharer 10). "The Demon Lover" is about a British woman who left her British home with her
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Porphyria Lover by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue. Browning has used several poetic elements to engage the idea of his idea about the dark side of human nature. Form the title‚ Porphyria’s lover‚ Porphyria is a name given to a form of blood poisoning that causes dementia. Just by reading the title of the dramatic monologue‚ we can immediately tell that it is about a mentally ill person and his obsession towards his lover. The dramatic monologue is separate in two main parts which is when
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certainly possible to make an issue and to make the audience well-aware of its own naivety by the use of an ambivalent title‚ as Elizabeth Bowen and Saki have tried to do with their respective short stories ‘The Demon Lover’ and ‘The Open Window’. The first tale yet‚ ‘The Demon Lover’‚ shows that it is not that difficult to put one on the wrong track. The title implies that it might be a ghost story‚ which was still very popular those days‚ but after a first lecture we can conclude that this is not
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Assignment: Compare and Contrast Jacqueline Stephens ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Annemarie Hamlin September 20‚ 2012 Week Three Assignment: Compare and Contrast I have chosen to compare and contrast the literary works‚ “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker‚ the theme being race / ethnicity. I want to explore the differences in how each of the black women portrayed their selves and how the narrator made me feel when reading each of the stories
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obey her husband and after a while the husband begins to treat her badly. The speaker then goes on to describe what it is like to be a new wife. She says the wife is not able to speak‚ is no longer able to freely speak her mind‚ and her freedom is taken from her. The poem ends with the speaker saying how woman should do whatever they can to avoid marriage and happiness is from being proud‚ wise‚ and single. Marriage is not as the speaker describes at all. She says that all marriages are unhappy‚ but
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Allan Poe and ‘Porphyria’s lover’ by Robert Browning are emotion and thought provoking. They are both about romance and grief with the main themes clearly being love and death. The largest similarity is the way the poems can be interpreted and the biggest difference is the way the women in question died. There are more similarities than there are differences between these two poems. The first and most prominent similarity between ‘Annabel Lee’ and ‘Porphyria’s lover’ is the way both poems can be
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Love poetry Coursework Assignment The two poems that I have chosen are ‘Porphyria’s lover‚’ a twisted story about a possessive lover who wants this moment of love to never end and ‘My Last Duchess’ where a Duke tells about his wife who he had killed whilst showing a painting of her to a guest. I chose these poems because they were the ones that I found the most interesting and that intrigued me the most. The poems are quite similar but at the same time have some differences. One way in which
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Lauren Smith SMITH 1 9/25/2012 World Literature 1113 1:30 Dr. Jacob Lewis 010559587 “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” Even though a man can do much harm to a woman’s ego‚ mind‚ and body‚ there is always something about the man that can lead her back into his arms. The poem “A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her” by Veronica Franco demonstrates just that. Franco goes on to describe how she has been lied to and cheated on by the love of her life. Yet‚ towards the
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Murder in the name of Love Comparisons and Contrasts of Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess Robert Browning was an author of two very eerie and dramatic monologues known as‚ Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. Although both poems have very related themes‚ they still contrast in ways that are too apparent to go unnoticed. You clearly recognize the similarities of both writings in the way that oddly enough‚ both point of views come from insecure men and they both irrationally kill the women they
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Different But The Same (Comparing and contrasting My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) Robert Browning is one of the best writers when it comes to dramatic monologues. Dramatic monologue is a poem where a person is speaking to an intended audience about something that they feel strongly about. There are two questions that you ask when reading dramatic monologues they are: Who is the speaker? And who is the speaker speaking to? Robert Browning is known for some of the most influential dramatic
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