insight into a hidden mad man? No. Robert Browning brought his characters to life and awakened the very real possibilities of the common man having a dark side. His use of persona and dramatic dialogue can be seen in “Porphyria’s Lover‚” and “My Last Duchess”. These works show his use of a mask and give insights into the “true” Victorian era. Even though the entire era of the Victorian’s was a mask to give the impression that family values were their main concern‚ Robert Browning revealed the hidden
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“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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the boy’s injury‚ or death‚ because this might have happened before‚ or they just didn’t care for the boy. 3. Frost’s reference to Macbeth’ contributes to my understanding of “Out‚ Out-“that this poem’s theme is about death. From the reference to Shakespeare play‚ Macbeth‚ I can expect read about someone dying‚ an unexpected death. In my opinion‚ the theme of this poem is the cruel‚ emotionless‚ merciless relationships adults had with their children back then in America. Children weren’t given
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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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How do men treat women in Porphyria’s Lover‚ My Last Duchess‚ Havisham and A Married State? In Porphyria’s Lover we see the views of a man and how he thinks that women are destructive. This is because in the poem the mistress is known a Porphyria‚ which is a type of deadly disease. I think that the poet‚ indirectly calling her Porphyria‚ is one big metaphor describing her to being deadly. Perhaps he thinks she is deadly because he is madly in love with her when maybe he shouldn’t be. Also the poem
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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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Keats‚ “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ “A Mother in a Refugee Camp” written by Chinua Achebe and “Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy‚ all have one main feature in common‚ they are about love. Albeit these poems are about love‚ they were written in different time periods‚ ranging from 1609 to 1993. I have decided to analyse these poem because of the fact that these poems all have a similar theme‚ the theme of love but were all written in the writers’ own style. The poem “My Last Duchess” was written
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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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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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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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