Porphyria’s lover: Like ‘My Last Duchess’‚ this poem is an example of a dramatic monologue – a poem in which the impression the speaker unwittingly gives is rather different from the picture they intend to present. Initially‚ the poem appears to be built around a contrast between the storm outside and the cosy domestic scene within the cottage that Porphyria and her lover share. But there are unsettling notes from the very start –the storm is strangely personified in terms of sullenness‚ ‘spite’
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Body of a Lover: An Analysis of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover Sexuality is evident in every form of life. Plants‚ animals‚ humans all actively engage in sexual practices; however‚ it is only mankind that offers various forms and perspectives of sex and its subcategories. Much focus of sex is its effects on the body and its senses. The focus of the human body‚ its sensuality and also the harm that is inflicted upon it‚ is one of Marguerite Duras’ themes throughout her work The Lover. The paradoxical
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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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Dr. Amy Robinson Survey of British Literature‚ 1780-1900 November 7‚ 2011 Deadly Love Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is surprising. The poem speaks through the mind of a man who kills his lover‚ Porphyria by strangling her with her own hair. Although my initial reaction to this poem was that the killer was insane and evil‚ a second reading revealed another meaning. Porphyria’s lover killed her‚ not out of malice but out of love for her. Throughout the poem‚ there are references to
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The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen was first published in Britain in 1945. In 1946‚ the collection was published in the United States under the title Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories. Without exception‚ reviewers greeted it enthusiastically‚ praising it for what was described in the New Yorker as ‘‘a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people.’’ Today‚ ’’The Demon Lover’’ is probably the most anthologized of Bowen’s short
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D.H. Lawrence: Son and Lover "Bildungsroman‚ a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience" (Nivin‚ Alastair; pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers‚ an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town‚ much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner‚ Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character
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Porphyria’s Lover is a typical dramatic monologue by Browning‚ where we get an insight into the narrator’s thoughts. In the poem‚ we get an insight into the thoughts of a man who kills his love interest out of jealousy: “Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain.” This gives the impression of Porphyria living a very high status life‚ just coming from a party‚ and the narrator being her love interest that she is sneaking away from her life to see. On the other hand‚ Porphyria’s death could have been
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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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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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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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