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they often share some similarities in terms of themes, feelings, or concepts that the poet tries to express and deliver to the reader. The two poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” are written by Robert Browning in 1842. In "Porphyria’s Lover”, the narrator sits alone in his house in a cold and stormy night. Then, his lover, Porphyria, comes to his house and make it warm by starting a fire. She starts to cuddle with him and puts his head over her shoulder, the narrator feels her love

names of “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”. These poems have both similarities and differences. Three similarities of the poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” are: They both deal with murder, One addresses only one lover and the other addresses two lovers, and they both have main character who have obvious mental issues. The first similarity between Last and Lover is that they both deal with murder. In Lover, Porphyria, the girl, comes home to her lover who is sitting in the

“Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” are both very dramatic poems. The author for both poems are written by Robert Browning. The speaker for both poems were very dramatic, insane, crazy, and controlling over their particular lover. Both poems has similarities in killings in their lovers over jealously. Jealously also plays a huge, important role in both poems. Porphyria’s lover was jealous of Porphyria and also Duke was jealous of his duchess. Porphyria’s lover became jealous over her, because

“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning creates precise imagery and diction that suggests the emotional development throughout the poem. As the narrative progresses, the reader recognizes that the speaker’s lover, Porphyria, visits him on a stormy night; Once the speaker realizes how much Porphyria loves him he decides to capture the moment by murdering her. Although the speaker discusses the events steadily, the descriptive language used expresses the diverse emotions the speaker’s experienced.

What Drove Her? In “The Demon Lover,” Kathleen Drover is the protagonist and represents a British wife and mother who returned from the country to her war-ravaged home in London hoping to retrieve some of her family’s personal belongings. Mrs. Drover’s story unfolds as a haunting of supernatural means driven by the ghost of her sweetheart, an un-named soldier presumed to have been killed during World War I twenty-five years earlier. The dark imagery of the story is craft-fully controlled by Bowen

Contrast Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess “An analysis of Porphyria’s Lover and My Last duchess” These two dramatic monologues by Robert Browning there is Porphyria’s Lover and the Dutch of My Last duchess. These dramatic monologues are similar in the ways that the two lovers of the women each kill their lover. They are also similar in the way that the lovers talking are both giving this story after it has happened. The contrast that this story has is that Porphyria’s lover killed Porphyria because

in a blink of an eye. Through the use of personification, imagery and character, Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” proves that love can make anyone deranged. First, Browning uses personification to demonstrate the idea that love can make someone disturbed, for example, “The sullen wind was soon awake,” (Line 2). As the character in this poem sits in his dark cottage pinning over his lover, he labels the wind as being “sullen” and “awake” as if the weather is intentionally being unpleasant. In reality

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

“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen is a short story that takes place during World War II in London, England. The main character, Mrs. Drover travels by herself to the bombed city to return to her boarded-up house. While gathering belongings, Mrs. Drover notices particular and out of place that begins to haunt her. The reader witnesses her mental state deteriorate as she begins dreaming of safety. The use of vivid imagery and flashbacks in “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen develops the mysterious

TITLE Robert Browning’s poems, My Last Duchess (‘MLD’) and Porphyria’s Lover (‘PL’) take the form of dramatic monologues and are striking examples of literature written in the Victorian era. Due to their form, a great interaction is developed between the reader and narrator, with an additional oratory effect; this allows the audience to understand a situation less ambiguously through features such as tone. Therefore, Browning is able to present male and female characters more completely. Furthermore