Compare and contrast the way love is presented in My Last Duchess and two other pre 1914 century poems we have studied.

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Compare and contrast the way love is presented in My Last Duchess and two other pre 1914 century poems we have studied.

The poems I will be studying are My Last Duchess, First Love and A Woman to her Lover. I chose these poems because the all have something in common and they all have something different about each other as well.

My Last Duchess is about a man who marries and woman and then kills her. He kills her because she doesn’t appreciate him and she flirts with other man instead of him. We also learn that he has had other girlfriends that he has murdered. I chose this poem because it is from a mans point of view about love and instead of talking about love in general the poet talks about his girlfriend.

First Love is about a man who is in love with a woman but she never notices him. Even though she doesn’t like him he still loves her. This is what makes this poem so interesting. I chose this poem so I could compare it with My Last Duchess because they are both from a male prospective.

A Woman to her Lover is about a woman who thinks that her boyfriend is using her as a housewife and just wants sex. She will only marry him if he is dedicated for life, then she they will love each other forever. I chose this poem because is it from a woman a woman. This means that I can then compare this with the other two poems that are written by men.

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In My Last Duchess there is a pattern for the rhyme which is AA, BB etc. This gives the poem more character. However the poem doesn’t have any stanzas, it’s just one big paragraph. This may be because My Last Duchess is more like a story than a poem. ‘‘That’s my last Duchess on the wall’’ and ‘‘my gift of a nine-hundred -years-old name.’’ These quotes make it more like a story rather than a poem because it has a beginning, middle and an end. Firstly the poem talks about his Duchess on the wall (the beginning) and then ...

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