A Comparison of The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats and To His Coy Mist

Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress." The Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems worth Reading. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 17-18.

Robert Browning wrote the two poems, "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover." Both poems convey an thoughtful, examination profound commentary about the concept of love.

In “To His Coy Mistress” it’s about a guy trying to conquer the love of a mistress. He tells her how much time he will wait for her and his love will endure forever as long as she is with him. Later the tone changes and it’s when carpe diem takes place. He starts to say that they don’t have all the time in the world and that one day all this will end. He points out that beauty one day will end and that she should take the advantage of being with him now that she is young and beautiful and not waiting till she’s old and wrinkly. Also he mentions her virginity and says that she should have sexual intercourse before she dies because if she dies as a virgin it’s the same thing as doing it while being alive because worms will still get inside her and eat all her remains. He wants to be with her, and would’ve waited a long time to get what he wanted, but since they don’t have all the time in the world and one day will die he wants

This composition contains several characteristics of a traditional love poem. But, if you analyze deeper into the poem, you may discover that “To Coy His Mistress” is more of a dramatic monologue. The speaker does all of the talking, which stamps the writing as a monologue. The rhetorician is conversing with his mistress, which defines the lyric as dramatic. Although, as the reader, you may identify with

Compare and contrast the attitudes and values of the two speakers of the poems and how the poets have used language to convey these between “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning

Imagine you are popular and you didn’t know you were someone that is rising again from medieval time. There were people that is protecting you from evil people. In the beginning of each chapter there is quote and it tells a little detail of the chapter like, “She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The lady of Shallot.” In chapter nine it is about when Ellie went to this party and she discover something, but she need’s to keep quiet because it may ruin someone's relationship. The Order of the Bears once predicted that King Arthur will rise again. There is also a movie about Avalon High, but it is totally different. Each character in the book is a person in medieval history. I recommend

Lord Tennyson, Alfred. "The Lady of Shalott". The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition, The Major Authors. New York, N.Y.: Norton & Company, 1996.

Thomas Blackburn describes the two Victorian poets, Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson as being great contemporaries (47). As such it is apt that their works should muse upon and explore similar topics and themes. Their connection is especially evident in Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott”. The themes of entrapment and incarceration feature heavily in both of these works. Specifically, it is the entrapment and incarceration of women which pervade their respective compositions. When taking into consideration the way in which women were viewed at this juncture in history- being nothing more than “beautiful objects” (Gilbert and Gubar 54), it is quite easy to see how the literary representations of the

Written by Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” is a poem about an egocentric Duke who has a painting of his last wife upon the wall and is trying to impress an ambassador who is negotiating his next marriage. Although it is obvious that the Duke is trying to persuade this ambassador, however, this is where the first mystery is created. It is almost as if he is trying to persuade no one more than himself.

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

The poems entitled My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell both discussed men speaking with or about their lovers. In both poems the speakers view their loves as amazing, beautiful creatures, but they each have some type of issue with their partner. Although the outcomes were different, the speakers in To His Coy Mistress and My Last Duchess proved that they continued to have love for their lovers. In My Last Duchess, Browning uses proper, regal, and vivid language to reflect the intricacies of the speaker’s lover.

Robert Browning was a poet known for his incorporation of dramatic monologue in his poetry. Today, he ranks among Alfred Lord Tennyson as one of the greatest Victorian era poets. Of Browning’s greatest poems, his two most moved are by the names of “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”. These poems have both similarities and differences. Three similarities of the poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” are: They both deal with murder, One addresses only one lover and the other addresses two lovers, and they both have main character who have obvious mental issues.

A Comparison of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell and ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti

A Comparison of the Dramatic Monologues of Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

John Keats’s poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” dramatizes the conflict between dreams and reality as experienced by the knight. On a late autumn day, the speaker stumbles upon an ailing knight and asks what is wrong. The knight reveals that he had fallen in love with a beautiful lady, “a faery’s child” (14), who then abandoned him after professing her love and spending one night together. The speaker is recounting his experience with the knight to his audience.