“My Last Duchess‚” a poem by Robert Browning‚ was written about an odd man‚ the Duke of Ferrara. In the poem‚ Ferrara is showing his house to a visitor in hopes of bettering his chances of marriage with the visitor’s master’s daughter. Although his story starts out relatively normal‚ it quickly turns very dark when he starts to tell the story of his late wife‚ his last duchess. While telling the story‚ the Duke reveals three disturbing aspects of his nature. In the beginning of the poem‚ the
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English Finals Study Guide - In Memoriam (pgs. 918-920) by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson o 27. Value of person’s role in your life doesn’t diminish in value‚ when the o 54. We don’t need to know the purpose to have a purpose o They’re still of a value or there’s still relationship even after loss (death). person dies. On the contrary‚ it highlights it. ß “Death doesn’t kill the experience” ß “We do not know the purpose of loss.” ß “loss is actually a connection.” - The Darling
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Monologue A dramatic monologue is a poem written in the voice of a specific‚ definite character who is not the poet: the speaker is a persona‚ a mask. It’s a monologue because it has only one speaker‚ though there is sometimes (as in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”) a silent interlocutor whose unheard (or unread) responses help shape the speaker’s discourse and the meaning of the poem. (In such poems addressed to a specific listener‚ though only one person speaks‚ both the speaker’s and the listener’s point
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to discuss one of Robert Browning’s more unsettling poems‚ "Porphyria’s Lover." The poem is a dramatic monologue of sorts‚ though different from Browning’s most famous dramatic monologue‚ "My Last Duchess." In contrast to "My Last Duchess" in which the Duke regales a Count’s envoy with tales of his former duchess‚ Porphyria’s lover is not addressing any other living person. Of course‚ this makes the monologue of Porphyria’s lover all the more dramatic. In keeping with the most important quality of
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The lovers in Last Duchess by Robert Browning and also Porphyria’s Lover have many similarities and differences that change the stories to make them more creative. The story of Last Duchess by Browning is about how a man talks about his last wife and why she isn’t here anymore. While Porphyria’s Lover by Browning tells the story of how a man kills his lover with her own hair. In both of these stories they explain the mental instability of the two lovers who see and only become jealous. Then there
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endeavour’‚ or‚ later when he claims her ‘smiling rosy little head’ is ‘So glad it has its utmost will.’ Where we would expect this style in a novel‚ in this poem the effect is really very disturbing‚ not least because the woman’s voice (just as in My Last Duchess) is completely silenced by the narrator himself. The Form: here‚ again‚ Browning uses iambs‚ but in tetrameter (four feet per line – pentameter has five feet)‚ so
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Love as an Entity There are different varieties of love‚ each with its own capabilities to invoke powerful emotions. An idealistic love is a form of love which in many ways is quixotic and lacking essential attributes‚ proof of which can be found in the works of Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Ralegh. Another potent form of love is pure love which is unconditional and timeless as expressed by Shakespeare and Elizabeth Berrett Browning. On a different note‚ a twisted love is flawed and bound
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influenced him to question the values of the Victorian society? Well‚ the Victorian Era is a period after the Renaissance where people start to question different areas of the aspect of life. One major aspect was dominance of men. As seen through My Last Duchess‚ the Duke of Ferrara is portrayed as a condescending figure who has a very possessive and controlling nature through the quote “The curtain I have drawn for you” we see the Duke’s action as being inordinately possessive: no-one but he draws the
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My Last Duchess 1. The speaker of the poem is the Duke of Ferrara who is indeed a very strict individual and demanding and always wants to be pleased. 2. He is speaking to the father of the woman that he wants to marry. The appropriate audience would be the family of the woman. 3. The word persona is applicable because it is interpreted in first person‚ Duke Ferrara’s perspective. 4. The dramatic situation is when the Duke is negotiating his art gallery in order for the father to agree on
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Browning similarly aims to subvert traditional beliefs - only this time of madness being an inherently female characteristic - in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ it seems that traditional gender roles have been reversed in that Porphyria and her partner is entitled as her “lover”. In this sense‚ the ownership is put completely on her because Browning has chosen to entitle the poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’‚ using a possessive apostrophe. However‚ throughout the poem‚ the emphasis is put on
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