Robert Browning Poetry
My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover
'Discuss the male speakers attitudes to the women that they are remembering and how Browning uses language to convey these attitudes'
Robert Browning was a poet who wrote poems
between the Victorian period concerned with attitudes towards
men and women and the way they were treated. Robert was an
English poet born in London in 1882-1889 noted for his mastery
of dramatic monologue. In his best works people from the past
reveal their thoughts and lives as if speaking or thinking aloud.
Robert Browning wrote about things the people in them days
thought to be morally wrong like sex and violence. Robert
aimed to question his readers emotionally and also question the
readers morality.
The poem 'My Last Duchess' was Published
842 and the poem is based on the life of Alfonso II, Duke of
Ferrara in the sixteenth century. The Duke's first wife died
after three years of marriage. The poem is written in the form
of the Duke addressing another Count to negotiate marriage
terms and he tells the Count how he wants her to behave. The poem is about a painting of the Dukes previous wife and how she behaves. Both of these poems where written in 1942 and they were about death. The poem 'Porphyria's Lover' is about a man who lives in the countryside and is visited by his lover. 'Porphyria's Lover' is about a man in love with a woman and because the women doesn't want to commit to their relationship he kills her, as he doesn't want anybody else to have her.
My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover
'Discuss the male speakers attitudes to the women that they are remembering and how Browning uses language to convey these attitudes'
Robert Browning was a poet who wrote poems
between the Victorian period concerned with attitudes towards
men and women and the way they were treated. Robert was an
English poet born in London in 1882-1889 noted for his mastery
of dramatic monologue. In his best works people from the past
reveal their thoughts and lives as if speaking or thinking aloud.
Robert Browning wrote about things the people in them days
thought to be morally wrong like sex and violence. Robert
aimed to question his readers emotionally and also question the
readers morality.
The poem 'My Last Duchess' was Published
842 and the poem is based on the life of Alfonso II, Duke of
Ferrara in the sixteenth century. The Duke's first wife died
after three years of marriage. The poem is written in the form
of the Duke addressing another Count to negotiate marriage
terms and he tells the Count how he wants her to behave. The poem is about a painting of the Dukes previous wife and how she behaves. Both of these poems where written in 1942 and they were about death. The poem 'Porphyria's Lover' is about a man who lives in the countryside and is visited by his lover. 'Porphyria's Lover' is about a man in love with a woman and because the women doesn't want to commit to their relationship he kills her, as he doesn't want anybody else to have her.