Compare and contrast A woman to her lover with My last Duchess - Comment on the content, the language of the poem, and yourpersonal point of view.

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST ‘A WOMAN TO HER LOVER’ WITH

‘MY LAST DUCHESS’?

Comment on the content, the language of the poem, and your personal point of view.

In this essay I shall be comparing and contrasting two pre-century poems. In particular I shall be looking at content, language, and my personal point of view.

Firstly I shall analyse ‘A Woman To Her Lover’ in relation to its content. The poem is about a woman who strongly conveys the qualities she expects of her lover as well as the qualities her lover should be expecting of her.

The woman is in love with her lover. It is a passionate and heart felt affair, yet she has principles that she is not prepared to compromise, no matter how intense her love is.

The poem by Ferrara however, is the opposite; it is the man taking control of his lover, judging whether she matches his standards. The Duke in this poem is very horrible to the women he calls his Duchesses; he makes and treats his wife like a piece of art, an object. The poem is about how the Duke thinks that his Duchess has things going on with other men, perhaps other types of contact. He doesn’t like the compliments his wife is getting from other men.

In ‘A Woman To Her Lover’ the woman who is the speaker is denying the traditional regulations that a woman may be a lower status to a man.

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‘Do you come to bend me to your will, as a conqueror to the vanquished.’ Here the woman is questioning her lover whether he has come to mould her to his obligations as the ruler of the defeated. We can clearly see that the poem is taking place in the present tense to show the scene in the beginning of a relationship.

I shall now discuss the language of the poems; both poems are based on the theme of love and relationships. 

In ‘My Last Duchess’ the language is set out to be telling a story of what happened between ...

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