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Browning’s poems present compelling monologues, which not only give us insight into the respective personas, but also make a comment on human nature. Discuss this statement 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

of Porphyrias Lover and My Last Dutchess Both of these poems are based around the concept of power and possesion. They tell the story of obssesional lovers. The effect of using dramatic monologue to convey this idea is very effective. The first poem, Porphyrias Lover, was written in the mid ninteenth century, around 1842. It is the dramatic monologue of the Lover. It is not made known who the recipient of this poem is. I believe it to be an internal monologue, the Lover is going through

'Porphyria's Lover' and 'When We Two Parted' both offer contrasting views on death. Both poets use the structure and form to present the role of death to convey the loss of their love. Both address their former love directly in order to create a sense of loss. However, in 'Porphyria's Lover' the death is physical which creates a sense of lust, whilst 'When We Two Parted' the death is emotional which creates pain and anguish. The role of death is presented in both poems by the form and structure.

two of his most renowned works, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. In “My Last Duchess” the speaker is an Italian Duke who is speaking to the ambassador about his daughter, who he intends to marry. The Duke then begins to flaunt his gallery of art with the intent to impress. He then comes across the painting of his last duchess in which openly speaks about having her murdered for lack of respect for him. “Porphyria’s Lover” is a dramatic monologue that describes the events that eventually

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

Within “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning suggests couples do not have fully expressed and healthy relationships because of male dominance and an individual’s psychotic state of mind. The idea of male dominance as a counter to the fulfillment of relationships appears in “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess.” Within “Porphyria’s Lover,” the speaker says, “she too weak, for all her heart’s endeavor, to set its struggling passion free from pride, and vainer ties dissever”

The men in both Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess, specifically the unnamed lover and the unnamed Duke, are very controlling, self-important men. They both clearly view themselves as god-like even though they never implicitly call themselves gods. The narrator of Porphyria’s Lover tells us that she was “murmuring how she loved [him]” (21) and that she wanted to “give herself to him forever” (25); however, rather than think Porphyria loved him like a man, the narrator believes she “worshipped”

From the numerous amount of short stories Elizabeth Bowen has written, none of them were anthologized as often as The Demon Lover. The Demon Lover was written by Elizabeth Bowen and was published in 1945 and retold several times afterwards through various authors who had different interpretations of the text. Elizabeth Bowen portrays the Man vs. Self conflict through diction, sentence structure and limited dialogue. Reconciling from past memories is difficult regardless of how many years have gone

view on The Demon Lover, from New Historicist point of view. The first step, represents three methodologies which are necessary in which unlocking the text according to New Historicism. The second step develops each methodology with reference to the text of the work and depicts different views in this regard. Since New Historicists view an aesthetic work as a social production, a text's meaning resides for them in the cultural system, composed of the Demon Lover from New Historicist

D.H. Lawrence in his famous novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, establishes a connection between the sexual awareness that people possess, and the profound changes this awareness has on the society. Kate Millett also constitutes an analogous link between the two, discussing ‘the celebration of sexual passion for which the book is so renowned’ (335). They both highlight the shift in change of the attitudes towards sex that is occurring in society. It is no longer based solely for reproduction purposes