“A Rose for Emily” and “Porphryia’s Lover” Synthesis Essay Through the aid of metonymy and mystery‚ poet Robert Browning brings forward the theme of an obsessive lover in the poem‚ “Porphryia’s Lover”. Similarly‚ author William Faulkner‚ uses the same theme and atmosphere of mystery to convey the elements that make up Gothic literature. Both‚ the short story and poem‚ accomplish the content of Gothic literature through the atmosphere of mystery‚ metonymy‚ and theme of obsessive love.
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evening has set upon the urban neighborhood as the speaker embarks on a walk. He see a crowd of people and hears a lover singing to his beloved and his song portrays that his love will never cease. The clocks‚ however‚ showcase a contradictory attitude through the use of their diction by insinuating that love will end because the lovers’ lives will as well. Throughout the poem‚ the lovers remain naively optimistic while the clocks take a cynical point of view toward love and time. The author of this
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Text | Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning (published 1836) Porphyria’s Lover (1836) is one of Robert Browning’s earliest dramatic monologues that reintroduced dark and sensual concepts disturbing the audience of the Victorian Era; since such ideologies had not been explored since the Renaissance Period. He employs annotative literary techniques such as morbid imagery‚ metaphors‚ symbolism and natural and vegetative diction; to portray the innate trait of humans to yearn for a sense of belonging
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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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05/17/12 “The Demon Lover” Essay In Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”‚ a forty-four year old woman returns to her old house to retrieve things she had to leave behind to escape from war. War is a constant theme throughout the story. War took away‚ what he remembers to be‚ her first love‚ and it drove her‚ her husband and her three sons away from their London home. In the beginning of the story‚ the protagonist‚ Mrs. Drover‚ is just returning to her old home from the country side. She doesn’t think
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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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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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In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen‚ the female protagonist‚ Kathleen Drover‚ finds that the atmosphere‚ interiorly and exteriorly of her former home‚ is similar to her repressed memories of a past life. Kathleen Drover arrives to her former residence with an initial plan to pack up a few items from her former life; the “steamy‚ showery day” (1) represents Kathleen’s need to restore her current life by obscuring memories that surfaced upon her arrival to the house. However‚ Kathleen‚ in an
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