A Comparison Of Porphyria's Lover And Andrew Marvell

Both poems have similar themes and both speakers describe a particular character found in both stories. Both poems have a beautiful woman as its main character and their themes describe the relationship between two lovers. In "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover," Robert Browning conveys two distinct portraits depicting the love shared between two people. The qualities of beauty, selfishness, and jealousy appear in both poems. In both works, the author explores the hidden influence death has upon the relationship shared by two lovers.

The mind of a psychotic can be an interesting maze to travel. The reason's that they do what they do will probably remain a mystery for a long time, despite technological advancements. The reasoning for some psychotics “slips” and harms to others can possibly be explained by Owen J. Flanagan, as he states, “The fact that slips sometimes take even the person himself by surprise is explained by the fact that unconscious wishes are usually unknown to the person himself.” (Flanagan). This can help explain how the men act within the stories My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. Furthermore, this is a comparative analysis of the lover’s within Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess, both by Robert Browning.

“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, commences off as a romantic poem being told by a deranged doter which anon, then has an ironic plot twist towards the cessation of the poem. Porphyria’s Lover was the first short dramatic monologue that Browning indite. In a dramatic monologue, the reader is revealed what the character is thinking and how they feel. This poem became published in January 1836. It is also one of his first poems to feature a character with a clinical dementia disorder. This poem went unnoticed upon its first publication, but it later gained attention in the literary and even psychological department as being one of the first poems to dig into the issue of mental illness in the 19th century. Robert Browning

What is power? Power itself is the ability or capacity to direct or influence the behavior of other or the course of events. It can have many forms such as the power of love, jealousy, political and so on. This has been illustrated in the poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and the play ‘Othello’.

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During the poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, a switch in agency vividly presents itself to show when the lover’s obsession of Porphyria changes him. Porphyria’s ability to act freely depends on solely herself before the text reads, “To set its struggling passion free… And give herself to me for ever/ But passion sometimes would prevail” (Browning 23-26). Up until this major turning point, Browning gave all of the actions to Porphyria, proving her own agency and control over it. The lover discusses her heart’s passion as if it struggles because he feels as though he should act on and improve her situation.

Details in the poem “Porphyria’s lover” are used to convey The man’s deep obsession with Porphyria which eventually leads to the girls murder. As Porphyria and the man are lying next to each other she tells him how much she loves him. He is delighted with this news as he has been longing for her I assume for a very long time. He thinks that she worships him now but then thinks that this won’t last forever. He realizes that if he kills her then she can never leave him and they can be together forever. He decides to strangle her and “In one long yellow string I wound three times around her throat.” She is dead. He loved her so much and was convinced she wouldn’t love him forever so he killed her to change that. The details the author uses are so spine chilling that you can see how crazy he is. He has become so attached to her that he’s made himself crazy from it. The details of how he wound it “three times” and her “little throat” and her “yellow” hair you can tell that he has memorized every thing about that moment of killing her. It’s terrifying about how much he loves her and

Porphyria's Lover also demonstrates several of Robert Browning's defining characteristics as a poet. It contains his criticism towards the beliefs and practices of self-restraint and his traditional use of dramatic monologue to expose a single character's personality, which in turn often provides an additional depth to his works in coordination with his use of unpoetic language. Also taking into account the author's own personal experiences with his wife, the poem can also be perceived as a representation of the development of their relationship. Browning's criticism of the idea of self-restraint is evident throughout the poem "Porphyria's Lover" as it was shown in the internal debates both characters underwent as they decided whether or not they should consummate the love between them.

The structure in 'Porphyria's Lover' is a mirrored structure as the first half of the poem (before her death) Porphyria is more dominant while after her death the narrator becomes more dominant reflecting the patriarchal society. This shows the dominance in their relationship, which contradict to the patriarchal society. Porphyria's gestures 'she kneeled', 'withdrew the dripping clock', 'let her damp hair fall' hints that she is flaunting her sexuality which controverts to how women where in the Victorian Times.

The word ‘love’ possesses such complexity and magnitude that people commonly have a hard time defining it effectively without oversimplifying. Given the true intensity of feeling, jealousy is often said to be synonymous with being in love and the real impact love can have on a person can be unpredictable. Considering this, The Cambridge Dictionary defines a ‘crime of passion’ as a crime committed because of very strong emotional feelings, especially in connection with a sexual relationship. The poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Laboratory” by Robert Browning, although significantly different, essentially share the theme of love and jealousy. In both poems, readers are introduced to the darker side of romance through male and female speakers so overwhelmed with emotion, they turn to murder as a means of expression. Using dramatic monologue, Browning brilliantly explores the profound effect love can have on its victims and the psychological elements leading to a crime of passion.

Robert Browning wrote his poem “Porphyria’s Lover” with an ABABB format so that it would flow smoothly and quickly as it was read, so that the series of events that lead up to Porphyria’s death happen quickly and astonishingly. When the poem starts out the reader is informed that the weather outside is “sullen” or bad tempered and that it is destroying things around it just because it can. The reader also learns that the narrator is also “sullen”

The two Browning poems, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ were written to convey to the reader how women were treated in that era; as possession, as assets. Both of these poems can be read from different points of view and they also both are what is

Both of these works contain the unique ability, as portrayed by Browning, to create a deep fictional psyche that displays the strange relationship between man and woman. This relationship is displayed as one full of pain, jealousy, rejection and happiness, the majority of these emotion are contained in love and marriage. From this the reader can infer the nature of love being the conquering of class distinction and marriage involves sexist male inhibitions. Insecurities are seen in both poems and are evident in the perspective voices of the male protagonists, who are seen as incapable to handle their aggressive and possessive natures when it comes to love and marriage. Browning seems to be demonstrating the side of relationships avoided previously by Romantics and in doing so shows the negative implication on seemingly unruly

In the widely acclaimed novel “Catching Fire”, the fictional character Peeta Mellark is quoted as saying, “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever.” (Collins). Coincidentally, that is what the unnamed lover in Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover” aspires to achieve when he murders his beloved Porphyria, in hopes of preserving their intimate moment for eternity. At the start of the poem, Browning seemingly shows his audience a loving, romantic scene of Porphyria affectionately tending her inert beau. As the dramatic monologue progresses, it is learned that the originally envisioned romantic love story has transformed into a disturbing tale of a cruel lover’s massacre of his