Robert Browning Essay

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

“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

Murder, mystery and intrigue all describe Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess." From the speakers' indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader is easily lead to think that the speaker committed a vengeful crime out of jealousy. His elaborate speech confuses and disguises any possible motives, and the mystery is left unsolved. Even if he did not kill his wife, he certainly has something to hide. Based on the poem's historical references, style and structure, the Duke's controlling

My Last Duchess My Last Duchess is a thrilling poem authored by Robert Browning and is set as a psychopathology that is based on an Italian Renaissance Duke, who unfortunately lost his wife via a murder that involved efficient utilization of dramatic monolog. In this poem, Browning explores various styles such as the use of figurative language so as to manifest a real nature of the Duke. Browning also captures literary elements so as to boost woman representation. At the onset of the poem, the Duke

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 his life’s pursuit. Robert Browning’s work was controversial for

Porphyria’s Lover : Browning’s Portrait of a Madman Robert Browning’s "Porphyria’s Lover" contains the methodical ramblings of a lunatic; it is a madman’s monologue that reveals the dark side of human nature. Power and passion coalesce to form the strangulation of the beautiful and innocent Porphyria, and at the same time strangle the reader’s ability to comprehend what is occurring and why it is occurring. The murder’s monologue depicts a heinous crime. The simple fact that the monologue is

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 high intensity of emotion for the reader. In the poems Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess, Robert Browning displayed several similarities

The poem "My Last Duchess" written by Robert Browning exemplifies the form of a dramatic monologue by its presence of an unspoken listener, dramatic situation, and blatant irony (Bowen). This form of a monologue is significant because through it, Browning subtly conveys the message that beauty in the real and nature is better and more vivid than any memory can make it because it is true in the former and altered in the latter. A major contribution of a dramatic monologue is that a character speaks

partner or spouse, there has never been a more relevant time to critique the prevalence of domestic violence. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue My Last Duchess was written as an appraisal of the cruelty of men and the sub-human treatment of women in the Victorian period as well as criticising the patriarchy. But why, nearly two centuries later, are we revisiting this poem? Browning uses his poetry, specifically works like My Last Duchess to explore the dark, rather evil side of the human condition

referring to two of the poems. The poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess,’ by Robert Browning both provide an insight into the personalities, vulnerabilities and thought processes of their respective key personas, through the use of dramatic monologue. The explicit exploration of the balance of power between men and women is thought provoking and provides an insight into human nature. Furthermore, Browning explores the nature of love within key moments of the respective personas lives, and