Compare my last duchess and Porhyria's lover considering in particular

Both ‘London’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ explore the ideas of power through social structures, hierarchy and synecdoche.

Compare how poets present powerful rulers in Ozymandias and in one other poem (My Last Duchess)

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.

Robert Browning provides a critical view of gender and power relations in his dramatic monologues “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess.” The dramatic monologue, as S.S. Curry has written, "reveals the struggle in the depths of the soul” (11). Browning delves into the minds of characters to show their conceptions of women and ideas of power. He explores the mental processes of the characters, and invites readers to question societal ideas of power and gender. The mental pathologies of the speakers is emphasized, which forces readers to examine the sanity of their own notions of gender dynamics.

There is significant evidence throughout both 'The Long Queen' and The Map Women' to indicate that suffering is a central element of female experience. Both poems are present in the 'Feminine Gospels' written by Carol Ann Duffy. The collection of poetry is seen to be teachings of feminism aiming to provide the reader visions of female identity. One feature of this identity that is examined within these two poems is the theme of mental and physical suffering that women universally endure.

the personality of his duchess, he is shown to be a heartless, arrogant man. His complete

When examining both Robert Browning’s, My Last Duchess, and Charlotte Mew’s, The Farmers Bride, the reader witnesses the poems positions of marriage in the natural world. Within both works, it is quite evident how each relationship is vastly different from the modern world, yet parallel it at the same time. Whether it be: the interactions between the two people or the conditions of the marriage, it is made more than apparent that both can be applied to modern conceptualizations of marriage.

shown her, she would be able to see clearly and she could repeat what I had shown

She saw me sewin’ in court. Or better still: Ask Abby, Abby sat beside me when I made it.

none puts by / The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)' He acts like

look at but he feels as if the Duchess takes him for granted and she

only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he

In To His Coy Mistress, the speaker quickly makes it clear that he wants sex from a woman he is talking to. He uses pretty language to veil the fact that he is impatient and somewhat disrespectful towards her. In My Last Duchess, a Duke is talking about his late Duchess, and explains that he wanted something that he had lost – her full attention. He further describes that he didn’t use any language towards her at all, but simply gave orders and commands to attempt to gain her attention back instead of talking to her. The speakers of To His Coy Mistress and My Last Duchess use different words and methods, but are both trying to gain something they think they deserve from their respective women.

Both poems “My Last Duchess” by Robert browning and “My ex-Husband” by Gabriel Spera are focus on ended relationships; both poems start with one of the partners referring to a painting of their former lovers. Both the duke and the ex-wife are very similar, they both think very high of themselves. The Dukes is more open about with his personality “E,en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop” (Browning 848) The ex-wife is a little more reserve when she talks about herself, but she makes sure to leave clear that she is too good to put up with her unfaithful husband “who’d lower herself to put up with shit like that?” (Spera 851) Or when she seems to criticized others whom had put with cheating “You’d still be on the short end

Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” depict a mastery of the dramatic monologue style. Said style contains a narrative told by a character’s point of view that differs from that of the poet.The character’s monologue consists of them discussing their particular situation that they find themselves within, this is meant to convey their internal information to the reader or audience. This in turn allows the reader a glimpse into the personality of the narrating character. Within “Porphyria’s Lover” and My Last Duchess” these monologues are used along with poetic devices to develop unique male personas. Between these two personas there are evident differences in class and within each class social issues arise within each work.