Dramatic Significance Essay

Love is complicated. If one does not show enough affection towards his or her significant other, he or she may become extremely jealous. On the other hand, if one displays too much affection for his or her significant other, he or she may not reciprocate those same feelings and may become overwhelmed. “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning depict exactly this. Through characterization of the Duke, an unsettling mood, and a judgmental tone, Browning seeks to convey that jealousy

and personification to bring the poem to life. The use of figurative language allows Browning to raise from the dead a poem with the unemotional tonee of the speaker. He exposes the mind of a psychopath, an insane lover, mastering the art of the dramatic monologue. “Porphyria’s Lover” opens with a scene of a warm cozy cottage during a raging storm. Amidst the storm, a young, yellowed haired woman named Porphyia comes calling on the speaker. The poem starts with the simplicity and purity of a young

personification, Robert Browning conveys the unmerciful nature of love. One principal similarity is that the theme of the poems is about love and in the both poems the protagonists kill their lovers in order to keep their woman just to themselves. In the dramatic poem “My Last Duchess” the Duke kills the duchess because of his suspicions against her which was a result of self love and jealousy from the Duke. In the poem “Porphyria's Lover” the protagonist murders his lover in order to keep her to himself

In Robert Browning’s poem Porphyria’s lover, the narrator killed his lover to remain in his love forever. There are two main characters in this poem: the female character, Porphyria, and her lover. Her lover is low class while Porphyria comes from a decent family. Because of this difference of social class, Porphyria could not give up her, everything for her love; however, she came to see her lover one night and confessed her love to him. Then, he killed her strangling her throat by her hair in order

Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” depict a mastery of the dramatic monologue style. Said style contains a narrative told by a character’s point of view that differs from that of the poet.The character’s monologue consists of them discussing their particular situation that they find themselves within, this is meant to convey their internal information to the reader or audience. This in turn allows the reader a glimpse into the personality of the narrating character

My last Duchess Browning presents the duke as an arrogant, jealous character with an ostentatious disposition .In the dramatic monologue of the Duke it would seem he over analyses his duchesses interactions in the poem, particularly that of the male gender. This institutes that the Duke is a jealous man and also that he regards the duchess as more of a possession than a person. This is also portrayed through the possessive pronouns used throughout the poem such us “my” and “mine.” Another fact

Robert Browning is a very interesting character with quite odd dramatic poems. Browning wrote in the era we call The Victorian. Robert wrote about poems in which to this day are very memorable and unforgettable. One poem is 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

woman was was used as a tool to convey the message of the poem, which was to show the reader how the innocent gratitude of Duchess woman was vied as a negative thing and converted to jealousy by the speakers own insecurities. In the end the use and significance of the painting was to symbolize the possessives the speaker had towards the woman's beauty and when he refers to another art work in the end of the poem this symbolizes how her beauty has become part of his

The Duke in Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess begins to talk about his last wife and inadvertently exposes his domineering and obsessive nature towards his deceased spouse. The Duke reveals to the negotiator the Duke’s traits of possessiveness in his account of his late wife. For example, the Duke recounts how the Duchess reacted to his “gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name” (33). The Duke believes his wife should treat him as one should treat nobility. When he realizes the Duchess smiles

Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess begins with a man showing a portrait of his Duchess. The Duke starts to slowly reveal how he truly feels, and confesses to killing his Duchess. The Duke talks about different attribute of the Duchess “Her husband’s presence only, called that spot / Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek” (13-14). The spot of joy on her cheek is blush that come from the presence of the Duke, so it appears that the Duchess has something the hide, or is guilty of something that might upset