My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover

“Porphyria's Lover” and “My Last Duchess” were just two of Robert Browning’s short dramatic monologues. In this poem, “My Last Duchess”, a husband talks about a portrait of his deceased wife. He tells how she was far too happy with everybody, and nothing could change that. “Porphyria’s Lover” is a short poem involving a man and his wife, they seem to be getting along until the husband strangles her with her own hair. These two Browning poems will be compared and contrasted in these next few paragraphs

Female Characters & Murder (An analyzation of Robert Browning’s Works “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”.) Throughout history gender roles and identification of both females and males have constantly been changing. Even today this topic is still an issue in consideration of societal concerns. Even in the early 1800’s this was something of somewhat a concern. We can see this when we observe great writers and poets at this time. Two of the most influential writers that focused on the identification

drilling for centuries. In Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” the narrators take this level of complete and utter acceptation and love to a completely different level as they base their love on the purity of the women in their lives. 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

“My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” are two mind boggling tales that relate in many ways. Two of which, they are both written by Robert Browning and from a male’s point of view. The Duke in “My Last Duchess” gives off a controlling, jealous, and arrogant vibe towards the Duchess which results in her death. The man in “Porphyria’s Lover” is angry and irritated because the woman he loves will not divorce her husband which also ends with her death. The poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”

called My Last Duchess, in which a man has lost his wife and chooses to find a new one with different personal characteristics. No one knows what happened to his wife, after commands from the Duke she was gone. A rather more disturbing poem is titled, Porphyria's Lover in which the male character strangles the a girl because it was what she wanted. My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover are two dramatic monologues that have some similarities and differences that make one wonder. First, My Last Duchess

mind through his poems. Specifically, his two poems My Last Duchess, and Porphyria’s Lover. These two texts share some startling similarities, and some thoughtful differences. “Social comparison is important.” (Festinger) Browning’s two poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover follow a similar idea, and in the following text, will be compared in three main areas. The first area of discussion is who is telling the story. In My Last Duchess, the narrator is a vastly wealthy Duke, who lives in

Victorian’s True Love: (A discussion of the treatment of women in the Victorian era as critiqued by Robert Browning in his poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) Similarly to the father of English’s, Chaucer’s, literary critique of his time period the Canterbury Tales, Browning critiques the treatment of women in his time period known as the Victorian Era. Robert Browning was self-educated through his father’s grand library. By the time he was a teenager Browning had decided to make poetry

Meaning Of Browning's Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess (An Analysis of Comparing and Contrasting Browning's poems called Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess) Robert Browning was a Victorian poet. He portrayed an understanding of gender rules in his poems. Browning’s poems are similar to a puzzle, which makes the reader have to figure out what is really being said in the poem. Browning wrote two famous dramatic monologue poems called Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. His poems create a

Love That Kills (Comparing and Contrasting of “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”) While reading the poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, there is a large possibility that you may be left haunted by the words that were written on the paper. “ This is not to say that he was blandly optimistic, as he is sometimes portrayed. He wrote fully about the world 's cruelty and vice and was quite frank that he had himself had no divine revelation. Nevertheless, he resolved

Visa Versa (An analysis of the similarities and differences of Last and Lover by Robert Browning) Robert Browning is the great poet of dramatic monologues. A dramatic monologue is described as narrator revealing characteristics about himself, while still explaining a particular series of events. Robert Browning was slow to make himself a name, but once he realized his capabilities in the literature world his career took off. Biographer, Richard Black explained, “Widely regarded for his knowledge