Jealousy In The Laboratory

communicates two interpretations concerning Both poems describe the behavior of people who are in loving, romantic relationships. There are several aspects common in both poems. Using the literary technique of dramatic dialogue, the author reveals the plot and central idea of each poem. Robert Browning tells each poetic story through a single speaker. Both poems reveal an account in which the admirer kills the object of his love. This paper will compare and contrast the following characteristics: the setting, the speaker, the mood and tone, and theme found "My

Jealousy. We all have it. It’s the little green monster in your pocket. It’s the devil on your left shoulder. Everyone is jealous, but what is worse is when it’s your own family. I believe that jealousy is never the best policy. I believe jealousy comes from someone believing that you have more than they do, so instead of encouraging, they are so insecure about themselves, that they feel obligated to criticize for all the wrong reasons.

“The sullen wind was soon awake,/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite, /And did its worst to vex the lake” (“Porphyria” 2-5). He describes the storm with truculent human traits. The wind can not feel sullen nor can it awake because it was not sleeping to begin with or even vex the lake. Utilizing these literary devices can go to show how the speaker feels emotional. Another figurative speech used is a simile, where Browning compares Porphyria’s closed eyes so a budding flower. “As a shut bud that hold a bee” (“Porphyria” 43). After the speaker strangles Porphyria, he looks into her eyes to ascertain that she is dead. She lies there lifeless, and he sees her body as a beautiful flower bud. This gives the reader a visual of her spirit being trapped inside of her, roaming around like a bee in a flower bud. In addition to those literary devices, Browning withal presents alliteration in this poem when the speaker states “Straight/ She shut the cold out and the storm” (“Porphyria” 6-7) as well as “Blush’d bright beneath my burning kiss” (“Porphyria” 48) which avails the sound and enhances the visual of the

Robert Browning uses descriptive details to portray a theme of how darkness rises from warmth and happiness by showing us on how a man’s love for someone makes him turn to savagery. The narrator of the poem has very deep feelings for his lover, but he only thinks of himself and he never wants the girl to leave his side so he does the unthinkable. In the times that the girl was not home or was not with the narrator then there was coldness and darkness, but when she was with the man then the house would “blaze up, and all the cottage warm”. She created hope and the narrator needed that constantly, so he realized that his love was too strong to put on hold everyday when she would leave. The fact that the narrator had to watch his lover leave everyday

Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Laboratory” both deal with crimes of passion. Explore ways Browning explains ways of obsessive nature of his character and analysis the effects of literary techniques. “Porphyria’s Lover” is a poem about a crime and passion. Porphyria is a young, wealthy girl who seems to have abandoned her family’s tradition of choosing wealthy men as lovers. Her lover remains anonymous, this could be because he has murdered her and does not want his name releasing.

Browning’s abandonment of the Petrarchan form expressed her challenging yet submissive nature to her society’s intake of love. In sonnet one, she automatically assumed that her life would end with the hyperphora used in “Guess now who holds thee? – ‘Death’ I said.” However, the sudden imagery of “the silver answer rang” and the antithesis of “Not Death, but Love” introduced her lover in a way that created an unexpected scene for the persona.

The speaker in Porphyria’s Lover does things that make the reader believe that he is acting irrationally, but from his perspective the logic behind his actions could be seen as reasonable. He is in love with a woman who is love with him and everyone else. He makes a decision that can be seen as irrational but in the end, it works out and you see why he did it and what positive aftermath was after it. In this poem, the speaker is in love with Porphyria but he doesn’t receive the love and display of affection that he wants from her. He sees her withdrawing her clothes and this brings in even more passion than he already had for her.

His poem, Porphyria’s Lover, has an unexpected twist near the end when the sullen speaker strangles his female companion, Porphyria, with her own hair. While the poem does give Porphyria a voice, it is used to call out to her would-be murderer in an attempt at connection. She does not realize that he hears her attempt, but then takes it a step further to make a claim for her worship. He wants her supposed worship to be neverending and poses her in death the way he wanted her to remain in life, surrounding him and comforting him. It is her silence that is key here for throughout the lines that convey her murder, she is never given a sound. Realistically, as she is strangled to death, she would have made some type of noise, but it is stricken from the poem. This is important because, even while the speaker is killing her, he cares so little for her that he does not allow her assumed cries to enter his ears. He wants to believe that she felt no pain, which can be seen on lines 41 and 42 when he says “… No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain” (Browning). This repetition makes it seem that the speaker is trying to convince himself that he has not done anything wrong in killing this woman because now she is better off and he will forever be basked in Porphyria’s

The calm diction that the text utilizes in an uncomfortable and unethical situation instills a sense of confusion into the reader. The Speaker is emotionless and yet calm with the murder that he just committed. He says “she felt no pain”, but he could be either referring to physical pain or the emotional pain caused by societal oppression. One line later, the Speaker says, “From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me forever. But passion sometimes would prevail” (Browning 24-25).

The nonchalance of the speaker in “Porphyria’s Lover” reveals his inability to comprehend Porphyria’s extreme affection. Both speakers judgmental and critical attitudes towards women also contribute to these messages. The Duke’s impulsive decision to kill the Duchess creates an unsettling mood, and Porphyria’s unwanted affection creates a disturbing mood. Overall, Browning’s message based on both of these poems is it is best to have an equal balance of affection in any

The finest woks of Browning endeavor to explain the mechanics of human psychology. The motions of love, hate, passion, instinct, violence, desire, poverty, violence, and sex and sensuousness are raised from the dead in his poetry with a striking virility and some are even introduced with a remarkable brilliance.

In these lines, Browning sets up the premise of her poem, while directly confronting her reader about it. She is calling out the reader, wondering why the children have to know the harshness of life at such an early age. She continues to build her position by creating a contrast between “the young lambs [who] are bleating in the meadows” (5), and England’s children who “are weeping bitterly” (10). All young, animal and human, should be allowed to be young. They should not have to be adults.

When a person first thinks of murder, envy probably is not their second thought, but it should be their third. Statistically speaking, jealousy ranks number three in the most common motives for manslaughter. So although it may seem like a simple enough emotion, many feelings coincide. To most, it is a stressful and unwanted inner conflict that can cause or further aggravate thoughts of insecurity and inadequacy. Also, apparently, violence-inducing rage.

The use of rhyming quickens the pace of the poem, adding to the woman's increasing excitement as the apothecary grinds up the mixture. Many of Browning's poems were written about people with an unusual nature. At first glance, the poem appears to be written as if she were talking to the apothecary, but reading into it shows that she may be thinking to herself as at the start of the poem she tells the man to take his time, but as she thinks about the possibilities and power the poison will bring her she begins to hurry him. Her careless attitude towards her future crime suggests that she may have previously killed and does not care about being found out as she is proud of what she will have done.

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