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    Robert Browning's poem, ‘Andrea del Sarto' presents the reader with his views on the painter's life, an artist who has lost faith in the Parnassian ideal of living for art, and now has to use art as a living. The poem looks at the darker side of the painter when he was older, and expresses a lot about Browning as well, and how he thought his work was perceived, and the context of his life and times. The poem covers many ideas and themes, which not only create a powerful poem, but also create commentary

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    Student’s Name Professor Course Title Date Literature Analysis: My Last Duchess and Ulysses Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson are celebrated authors and poets in the field of field of literature. A deeper analysis of some of their works displays particular similarities and distinct differences that make each one of them unique. For instance, Browning’s My Last Duchess and Tennyson’s Ulysses show similarities in the overall theme, death, but each brings it out in different styles. This essay

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    Porphyria's Packet

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    Next Week’s Packet is Due on the Same Day as the AP Chemistry Test so I’m Gonna Turn that Sucker in Late (A discussion of the similarities and differences between Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess both by Robert Browning) The Victorian Period was marked by a major increase in the English empire and its culture. With more conquests came more colonies, and soon the empire was at the peak of its reach ang physical size. Back in Britain, writers and poets were beginning to expand on their own terms

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    My Last Duchess Essay

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    Browning composes his work through the use of the form, dramatic monologues. This helps to portray the psychotic mindset of the character to notify the reader and expand their knowledge. In addition, this enables Browning to capture the deluded aspect of the character. Robert Browning unveils his work through one long stanza; this is signified in My Last Duchess, where it illustrates the Duke’s potency and sense of mightiness. Furthermore, this demonstrates how much of a self-absorbed, narcisstic

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    Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812. Raised and born in Camberwell, England. Intelligent man he surely was. His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout evangelical Christian. She had so much faith and provided him with a lifelong belief in the existence of God. His father worked as a bank clerk also an artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and pictures. Browning had a wife name Elizabeth. They got married in 1846. Although Robert’s father did not approve the marriage, they

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    Psychotic Doter “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, commences off as a romantic poem being told by a deranged doter which anon, then has an ironic plot twist towards the cessation of the poem. Porphyria’s Lover was the first short dramatic monologue that Browning indite. In a dramatic monologue, the reader is revealed what the character is thinking and how they feel. This poem became published in January 1836. It is also one of his first poems to feature a character with a clinical dementia

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    methods of critiquing social norms. The short story, A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker paints a harsh reality from the perspective of a highly anxious woman forced into a lifestyle that many would relate to in the 1900s. “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning exposes the duke and the terrible social norms he reinforces through a poetic format allowing the reader to interpret his strange behavior on their own. Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel, by Zora Neale Hurston attempts to defy social norms

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    love in them. But they are not all the same theme of love for example Porphyrias Lover is obsessive and seductive love whereas; The Flea is more like sexual love. Robert Browning writes both Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess and John Donne writes The Flea. I think Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are alike as Robert Browning uses similar themes of love in them e.g. Obsessive and Possessive. The Flea is a completely different poem altogether. It is more of a sexual poem rather than obsessive

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    Written by Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” is a poem about an egocentric Duke who has a painting of his last wife upon the wall and is trying to impress an ambassador who is negotiating his next marriage. Although it is obvious that the Duke is trying to persuade this ambassador, however, this is where the first mystery is created. It is almost as if he is trying to persuade no one more than himself. This poem was set in Renaissance Italy and women were denied all political rights and considered

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    Violence towards a woman who was once desired and wor-shipped by men appears to be a recurring motif in Browning's po-ems. "Porphyria's lover" is one of the earliest dramatic mono-logues by Robert Browning in which he explores the mind of an insane male lover. Browning reveals the changing thoughts and feelings as well as the emotional disorder of his speaker. The reader often perceives a gap between what the speaker says and what he actually reveals. The poem depends upon the reader's abil-ity to

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