A desire to have complete control over another human being can be deadly, often inciting physical abuse. In Robert Browning’s poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” the male speakers kill their female lovers out of envy and paranoia. In “My Last Duchess,” the Duke reveals his inability to control his wife, the Duchess, because she has relationships with other men, and finds happiness in simple things. The narrator’s jealousy transforms into an envious anger, and the Duke murders his wife
Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” is a story of many emotions, including jealousy, paranoia, pride, and selfishness. It is also an account of how double standards can be found at this time in history and sometimes even in today’s society. Poems like this one can travel through time and be meaningful many years after they are originally written. In a nut shell, “My Last Duchess” is the recounting of a Duke and his wife, with whose actions he was not pleased with. Her seemingly innocent actions
The theme of power is persistent throughout many of Robert Browning written work. Within “My Last Duchess,” Browning creates the speaker, a duke, who strives on the social and political power over his late duchess. The poem, a dramatic monologue, captures discussion regarding the duke expressing his desire over marrying the count’s daughter to one of the count’s emissaries. Within “Porphyria’s Lover,” browning creates a scene of power associated with physical and psychological power that each voice
coming inside the speaker’s cottage Porphyria sits down by the speaker’s side and calls to him, but the speaker doesn’t reply to her. The speaker describes Porphyria as very affectionate towards the speaker. Browning writes that “She [Porphyria] put my [the speaker’s] arm about her waist/ And made her smooth white shoulder bare,” (16-17). In this sensual embrace the speaker looks into Porphyria’s eyes and has a sudden realization that Porphyria worships them. This is the moment that Porphyria’s fate
October 2015 “My Ex Husband” And “My Last Duchess” "My Last Duchess" and "My Ex-Husband" are two lyrics that are fundamentally the same despite the fact that they originate from two different time periods. "My Last Duchess," composed by Robert Browning, is a lyric of sensational monologue by the speaker Duke Ferrera. "My Ex-Husband," by Gabriel Spera, was composed to be an advanced duplicate of the lyric "My Last Duchess." It incorporates emotional monologue like the first "My Last Duchess." However
Psychotic lover “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, starts off as a romantic poem being told by a derange lover, which soon then has an ironic plot twist towards the end of the poem. Porphyria’s Lover was the first short dramatic monologue that Browning wrote. In a dramatic monologue we are revealed what the character is thinking and how they feel. This poem was published in January 1836. It is also one of his first poems to feature a character with clinical insanity disorder. This poem went
‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Things’ are both poems differing incredibly in length and structure, however they share and underlying sinister tone, conveyed by the eerie imagery both poets choose to write about. In Robert Browning’s poem, ‘My Last Duchess’, the first major source of imagery we encounter is the detail about the portrait of the Duchess on the wall, and the fictional author, Fra Pandolf. Boasting about the painting on the wall, the Duke adopts a cold and dispassionate tone when talking
Introduction: Hi everyone I decided to do a poem analysis between Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and My love by Oodgeroo Noonuccal Paragraph one: Context Robert Browning was one out of many famous poet and play writer, born in 1812. Multiple his poems are extensively known and are being taught in schools around Australia today. For many years Browning lived in Italy alongside his wife and his only son. Browning’s poems had themes such as delusion, death, jealousy and violence. His poems
insanity concealed within the speaker’s reasoned self-presentation. Another significant factor when regarding the rhyme is that all but three end rhymes are masculine. Masculine rhyme occurs when the last syllable of two lines rhyme together like ‘still’ and ‘will’. A feminine rhyme however occurs when the last two syllables of two lines rhyme together, like ‘dissever’ and ‘forever’. The dominance of this masculine rhyme highlights the protagonists catastrophic conquest of
Lee” and “My Last Duchess” Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” are two poems written in the same historical period, the 1800s. “Annabel Lee” was the last of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems to be published and it appeared in October 9, 1849, in the New York Tribune, while “My Last Duchess” was published in 1842 in the collection Dramatic Lyrics (Johnson). Both poems have similar titles because they portrait the image of a woman: Annabel Lee and the Duchess. These two