How Does Browning Tell the Story in the Laboratory?

In this essay I am going to be analysing two poems, 'The Sun Rising' and 'Porphyria's Lover' in order to examine how both texts presented the treatment of women.

At first, one might see the work as condemning people who have sex without being in love; but after further review, one can see how Olds really portrays these people. She describes them as being "...Beautiful as dancers,/ gliding over each other like ice skaters" (Olds 838); also they are considered very religious, and in-tune with their bodies much like great runners are. The characters in the poem are depicted as athletes, agile and ready to compete, much like how the narrator, who talks so highly of them, wants to be. However, once again, only the emotion of lust is present in this piece, and there is no confusion between love and lust.

During her first appearance in court for her trial, she stated “I only killed one little old lady. Not the others. It isn’t write to pin the others on me.” When she was later asked about her motive for the sole killing that she took responsibility for, she simply said, “I got angry.”

In the poem “Havisham”, Carol Ann Duffy presents the subject as an old, embittered woman with “ropes on the back of her hands”. In “The Laboratory” by Robert Browning the subject is a strong and determined, but very jealous and embittered, young woman. Both poems are written in the first person in the form of a dramatic monologue.

The start of the poem illustrates how women gave up the pleasure and “playthings of her life” (Dickinson). This hints at how women are intimidated in social gatherings, and how they make themselves into the norms of society and make

Starting in the 1960s continuing into the 1980s, the Sexual Revolution took place. Also known as a time called Sexual Liberation, this revolution was a social movement that challenged gender roles involving traditional acts of behavior and relationships related to feminism. Many names for this event evolved during this moment such as the “feminist movement”, where many women started to challenge roles in politics and workplace, as well as sexual roles in society. In this century it was looked down upon to express your sexuality as a woman, until later it was finally accepted. To talk in a detailed way about a woman’s body or to admire her body parts even if she was proud of them was frowned upon. In order to repress her sexuality in the poem, she uses mathematics to order to sway the reader away from her emergence of sexuality that was so harshly denied because of a standard. In a short article called, “The Pill” taken from PBS.com the Sexual Revolution was mentioned and “at the core of the sexual revolution was the concept -- radical at the time -- that women, just like men, enjoyed

Emily Dickinson is was a talented and unique poet; some might even call her strange or mad. This poem, in a way, represents her life that was far from what was considered normal. In the 1800s, a certain type of behavior was expected from people, especially from women. Women cooked, cleaned, and nurtured their families, while under the control of men. It was not looked upon well when women strayed from this status quo. Emily Dickinson did, and this poem demonstrates this rebellion.

Married and widowed five times, the Wife claims authority in the realm of marriage. She defends her numerous marriages holding religious figures as models (lines 35-59). Defending herself at length, she argues her marriages perform a needed service to the virtuous of the world. Claiming that there could be no virginity without seeds sown to grow new virgins (lines 71-72). At first defensive in tone, the Wife soon speaks arrogantly boasting about her number of husbands and the manipulation of them. She accused her husbands of seeking lovers away for home, despite her own guilty. Mockingly she reveals her husband’s foolishness, believing her jealously an expression of her love (lines 379-396). The Wife

Some people may say that English is not very important, but without it we would not know much of what we know today. We have gained so much knowledge from the English language and how it has been change throughout centuries. Robert Browning was a successful, famous, and maintained a critical reputation among one of the first rank of English poet. Anyone could learn different writing techniques, but Robert could write about anything without people questioning his work.

She can’t be justified because she had a feeling of what she had wrong after she killed him. As an example, Mary Maloney in Lamb To Slaughter kills

The narrator realizes that he and this woman share different views which is ironic because at the beginning of the poem, the narrator wants their, “two souls to be one.” Baudelaire adds the last twist in the poem by expressing the external beauty of the lady companion that the narrator desires to have a deep connection with. The narrator comes back to harsh reality with the lady asking for the poor to be kicked out of her sight. Baudelaire is saying that true companionship is difficult and hard to find. Also, since the narrator doesn’t tell his companion, the one person who he promised, “ to share all our thoughts with one another and hence our two souls will be one.” , Baudelaire is claiming that people rarely take action against gluttony. Baudelaire’s stance on modernity seems to be conservative since, he is not calling people into action rather opening their eyes to the problems of society. Baudelaire’s goal of this poem was to enlighten his readers, but not force them into

While Browning is telling this as a scholar, his writing is clear and concise, with the mindset of an academic argument. He attacks it with a simple timeline providing an equal look as to how the battalion members went from every day, ordinary routines to slaughtering the Jews like animals like they were methodically brainwashed to believe.

Robert Herrick's’ poem To the Virgins dramatizes the entanglement of two contending notions; time and beauty. The speaker yearns to take the one thing a woman holds all the power to, her virginity. Yet the subject of his lustfulness does not reciprocate his ferocity. As the time closes his window of opportunity mirrors the same constraint. Instead of seeing this predicament as a great hindrance, Using his circumstance as a catalyst to succeed in his contemptible quest,the speaker is able to begin his onslaught,” Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying…”. Although the woman the writer is trying to seduce seems surefooted in her thinking, the writer knows that by planting small seeds of ambiguity they may land faultlessly and begin to bear fruit. This poem strives impress upon his reader that granted they have their youth and beauty now, time waits for none and converges upon all. While they are worried about childish things, the writer uncovers the truth that age and death do lessen their appeal and value; though the beauty they hold now seems unparalleled, the grains of time fall still, even though “...the same flower that smiles today dies tomorrow.” By waiting any longer, the speaker illustrates

What I find most fascinating about this poem is that the author is actually sending a very truthful important message. The prostitute tells the readers the best advice she could give, which is “Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young or be left-an old barrel with many a bung” (31). She encourages every woman to choose the right path and not to become someone like her. Living a life of greed and only wanting to reward yourself will result in living the ultimate punishment; lonesomeness. The life of the prostitute is not a funny outcome; it is just another example of the wrong path.

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