Compare the ways feelings are presented in Anne Hathaway, Kid, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory

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Compare the ways feelings are presented in ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Kid’, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Laboratory’ (36 Marks) ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Kid’, ‘The Laboratory’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ all describe one person’s feelings for another person. ‘Anne Hathaway’ describes a mutual and passionate love, “the bed we loved in”, whilst ‘Kid’ talks about anger and resentment towards a “father figure”, who is referred to “Batman” to give a sense of irony. He feels “Batman” has “let me loose to wander”, let go of him and “left me isolated in the gutter”, this triggers a sense of sympathy from the reader. On the other hand, the narrators of ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Laboratory’ both have sinister feelings of bitterness towards a lover. In ‘My
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Last Duchess’, the reader gets the impression that the poet has killed his wife when he drops sinister comments such as “as if she were alive”, whilst in ‘The Laboratory’, the woman wants to kill the lover of the men she loves, she says “let death be felt”. Therefore, both of these poems deal with the idea of murder as a response to deep, but perhaps insane, feelings of jealousy.‘Anne Hathaway’ is set out as a sonnet. This is a tribute to her late husband Shakespeare, whom the poem is about, as he wrote many sonnets. It could also be ...

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