Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory
In this essay I hope to prove that Robert Browning’s murder mystery poems are fulfilled with intrigue and excitement. I also hope to prove that in his poems he creates vivid characters and uses poetic techniques to expose a world of madness and wickedness. To show that the statements above are true I will be writing about the characters, the poetic features in each poem and the madness and wickedness in each poem. This essay will include three of Robert Browning’s poems; they are Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory.
Robert Browning was born on the seventh of May in eighteen twelve in
Camberwell a suburb of London. He was the first child of Robert and
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The first poem I am going to look at is Porphyria’s Lover. The two characters in the poem are Porphyria and her lover. From the poem we learn that Porphyria is beautiful and sensuous, ‘glided in Porphyria’.
She uses her beauty to manipulate her lover. The name Porphyria is the name of a mental illness that drives people mad and that is what she does to her lover because he loves her so much and can not be with her. She warms up her lover and makes him feel special and whole.
‘Made the cheerless grate blaze up and all the cottage warm up’.
She loves and respects her lover she shows this when she kneels down to speak to him when she enters the cottage. Porphyria has already got a partner ‘vainer ties dissever’. She is richer than her lover ‘free from pride’. She is a very gentle person but at the same time she is also a reckless person, she shows this when she leaves a party early to see her lover and also the fact that she is betraying her husband.
She will not leave her husband for her lover and let her true feelings out he sees it as a weakness in her.
‘To weak, for all her heart’s endeavour to set its struggling passion free’. Porphyria’s lover is the only other character in this poem. He is the opposite of Porphyria because when Porphyria arrived she was full of life and vitality whereas her lover is miserable, cheerless and
Which she utilizes to gain rank and bring her one step closer to her redemption. Although that side is very dominant there is a more hidden soft
her pleasure, now only gives her sorrow. In a very short time she has lost self control and
alone with nothing so the only way to get out of the loneliness is by killing her one love.
lose her husband and she does not want that with her life. She wants to keep the man that
to be weak and naïve in the eyes of her father. We can tell this from
The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem Porphyria’s Lover, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speaker’s in both Porphyria’s Lover and Neutral Tones, written by Thomas hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in Neutral Tones seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. Porphyria’s Lover speaker ends up murdering his beloved at the end the poem. While this isn’t the case with the speaker in Neutral Tones, the two speakers are much more similar than we might think. The speaker in Neutral Tones doesn’t outright murder his lover, but there is a considerable amount of disdain and contempt towards his supposed lover. The speaker in Porphyria’s Lover is quite obviously a disturbed man, the sinister nature of the speaker in Neutral Tones, however, is not as clear. Delving further into this idea, I will also discuss other obscure parallels throughout the two poems.
husband. She is still at the time in her life where she fears him. She wants to do everything she
puts her son’s comfort and life above all and swallows her pride. Furthermore, as a woman of the
mother. Yet, at the same time she feels as if she is prisoner to these relations. Due to her
from her husband. From reading the story I gathered she obviously didn’t love him. She wanted to give
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.
look at but he feels as if the Duchess takes him for granted and she
shows how she is passive and submissive. Her weak flaw lies in the fact that
The fact that the men are fighting over her helps to affirm her beauty. She does nothing to stop the fight because she enjoys the fact that they all want her affection.
only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he