Compare Browning's portrayal of the men and their relationships in 'My Last Duchess'and 'Porphyria's Lover'
Compare Browning's portrayal of the men and their relationships in 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover' Robert Browning's poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess' are both written in the form of dramatic monologues. This is when one speaker tells the poem to either a real audience or an implied audience. This means the poem is from one perspective and shows how the men want to mould the women into their own perceptions of how they should behave. 'Porphyria's Lover' is told to an implied audience whereas the duke in 'My Last Duchess' is making his speech to a servant. Browning writes both poems in this form in order to silence the women in the poems, portraying the men as controlling and the women as vulnerable. This silencing of the women portrays how women were treated throughout the Victorian period. Women rarely had a strong voice to air their opinions, especially in marriage. Both poems have a definite rhyme scheme. 'Porphyria's Lover' has an ABABB rhyme scheme. This emphasises the desire of the lover narrating the poem to be with Porphyria. The A rhymes want to be together, however the B rhymes are sending them apart. The lines of the poem with B rhymes are also indented emphasising how they are being driven apart mainly by the difference in the couple's social status but also by how they are not married. However, in 'My Last Duchess' the rhyme scheme
By comparing 'My Last duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover' show how Browning used dramatic monologues to reveal characters
By comparing 'My Last duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover' show how Browning used dramatic monologues to reveal characters I am studying the 'My last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover,' both of which are dramatic monologues. Browning writes about two people who are talking about their lovers or ex-lovers. The dramatic monologue tells us the persons feelings and thought and they reveal what the character is like inside. Browning uses language, tone, style and images to reveal the characters he is writing about. In Porphyrias's lover Browning writes about an abnormally possessive lover waiting for his girlfriend to return. The lover is obsessed with Porphyria, and wants this moment of love to last forever. He has a very strange way of immortalising her love. He says, "That's moment she was mine," he never wanted to lose her. Browning uses emotional language to convey how obsessed Porphyria's Lover is obsessed with Porphyria. Porphyria's lover said he knew Porphyria "worshipped him" but he was just fooling himself. He would wait for her to come home "and "listened with heart to break." Porphyria's lover was paranoid about Porphyria having other men. His heart he say was "fit to break" because he was ready for it. Porphyria's lover knew that Porphyria might be seeing other men. So when he had the chance to keep her forever, he took that chance and "strangled her" casually as if it
Compare the following poems: 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning and 'Hitcher' by Simon Armitage.
Compare the following poems: 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning and 'Hitcher' by Simon Armitage. In this essay I am going to compare three poems, 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning and 'Hitcher' by Simon Armitage. 'The Laboratory' is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses who she blames for attracting and trapping her husband. The poem is set in an apothecary and the woman is watching the potion that will kill being made. 'My Last Duchess' is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara is telling one of the count's servants about a portrait of his last wife. He has had her killed because he did not think she behaved in the correct manor as a Duchess or as his wife. All three 'Hitcher' is a ballad that tells the story of a disturbed man who picks up a hitchhiker, then proceeds to brutally and sadistically murder him. In 'The Laboratory' murder is being planned, in 'Hitcher' murder takes place in the poem and in 'My Last Duchess' murder has taken place and is being talked about. The three murders referred to are all different. 'Hitcher' has a violent murder, "six times with the krooklok in the face". The murder referred to in 'My Last Duchess' does not give away much information, "all smiles stopped
To compare the attitudes shown in "The Man He Killed" By Tomas Hardy and in "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
To compare the attitudes shown in "The Man He Killed" By Tomas Hardy and in "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning The attitudes shown in the two poems "The Man he Killed" by Tomas Hardy and "My Last Duchess" Robert by Browning are very different; where as Hardy creates a modest, baffled character who feels very guilty, Browning's Duke is a vain, proud man who has killed his wife in a premeditated manner. These characteristics are also revealed through the poet's use of stanza, structure and language choices. Both of the poems are about killing In the Man He Killed the solider feels very guilty for his actions; this is evident when he says; "I shot him dead because- Because he was my he was my foe, Just so - my foe of coarse he was; That's clear enough; although." His guilt is evident because he is questioning his actions; this is reinforced by the repetition of the word 'foe'. Also the use of the words 'That's clear enough...' where he is trying to reassure himself, about his actions. My Last Duchess The duke does not feel guilty for his actions; this is evident when he says; "I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together." His lack of guilt is evident because he is giving commands to someone to kill his wife; and he is not showing any regret or sadness. Therefore the two characters feel very differently about the deaths that they have both been
Discuss in detail Porphyria's Lover. Show how Browning develops the theme of disruption which appears in the first few lines?
Discuss in detail Porphyria's Lover. Show how Browning develops the theme of disruption which appears in the first few lines? Porphyria's lover is a dramatic narrative monologue written in the first person, which slowly reveals a sinister character. This poem by Robert Browning is one of three which follow a pattern of controlling overbearing males wanting to change and control their lovers; the other two are "My Last Duchess" and "The Confessional." In the first few lines of Porphyria's Lover, Browning touches on the idea of disruption. Lines 1-5 start to build up the picture of a cold, dark and angry atmosphere, which also relates to the male characters feelings at this time (although it doesn't actually state whether the other character is male or female but we would assume it was a male mainly because of the period it was written in). The lines are written clearly and consistently throughout, in beat, rhythm and rhyme, in comparison with the beginning of the story/poem. It is at the end of these 5 lines where we start to see a change in tone and atmosphere. This is the point at which Porphyria glides in, she seems to make a huge impact within the first few seconds of her arrival this is shown in the seventh line "She shut the cold out and the storm" Showing how she takes control of what appears to be at the time a cold, dark and angry atmosphere inside the
Havisham and Laboratory Coursework
In the poems "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning and "Havisham" by Carol Ann Duffy; how do the poets convey the extreme reactions of woman who have been hurt by men? In this piece of coursework I will be looking at the two poems; The Laboratory by Robert Browning and Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy. I will be looking at how the poets convey the extreme reactions of the woman in the poems that have been hurt by men. I will tackle the question by looking at different areas of the poems, such as the meaning of the poems, the structure, the type of language used and the image they create. Havisham is a poem about a character called Miss Havisham from the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the book, Miss Havisham jilted by her scheming fiancée, can't get over what he did to her, so in spite wears her wedding dress and sits with the remains of her wedding breakfast for the rest of her life. She plans her revenge on all men, whilst in her spinster state - which she hates. The Laboratory is a poem about a woman who makes a potion that will kill her lover's mistress. This is all because the woman's lover left her for another woman. This enrages her so much she is in a state of paranoia and decides to make this potion that she plans to give to her lover's mistress. She shows her anger by explaining how she is going to enjoy seeing her lovers face as his mistress dies.
Both My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover are dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Write a comparison between them showing how typical they are of the dramatic monologue form.
January 2003 English Coursework - Comparison Both My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover are dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Write a comparison between them showing how typical they are of the dramatic monologue form. Include some reference to the form and language of each poem as well as your personal response. A dramatic monologue is a narrative spoken or thought by one person. There may or may not be an audience, if there is, it is a passive audience. The story told is usually dramatic and characters often give themselves away. It may not be an accurate representation of the events as only one point of view is given. This is reflected in both poems although they seem entirely different on first reading. "My Last Duchess" is written in rhyming couplets (AABB) although these are not felt because the lines do not employ end-stops, they use enjambment, this means one line flows into the next. This, combined with the iambic pentameter gives the flow of natural conversation, despite the very cold and controlled verse form, accentuated by the fact that it is decasyllabic - each line has ten syllables. This mimics the character of the Duke. He is cold and without passion. He can talk naturally about the murder of his wife and he seems to see women as objects not people. "Porphyria's Lover" however has an ABABB rhyme scheme. This makes it more fluent and in
Browning Version
What is the significance of the plays' title? Terence Rattigan's play "The Browning Version" is a modern interpretation of Greek tragedy, 'Agamemnon', written by Aeschylus. Agamemnon is married to Clytemenstra and she is having an affair with another man . Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, aided by her lover. This is plot in the 'Agamemnon' is similar to "The Browining Version" because Andrew Crocker-Harris, "has no soul", due to his wife's search5 elsewhere for sexual love, and in a harsh, coldblooded way, constantly attacks her husband. Browning's translation of this play is a literal translation without any emotion or passion. Critics believe the reason for this emotionless play written in verse is due to the loss of his beloved wife Elizabeth. It is said the couple had eloped as their mariage had been forbidden. They went to Italy and remained firmly in love until parted by death. Critics claim that his version of the play, Agamemnon was a response after to his own loss of love. His translation was cold and unfeeling, due to the loss of his true love. This translation is very central to the play's meaning, because the realtionship between Millie and Andrew are mirrored by that of Agammemnon and Clymenstra. This plot of the 'Agamemnon' is almost identical to the play "The Browning Version", Agamemnon happens to be the favourite tale of the main character, Andrew
Porphyria's Lover
Porphyria's Lover, by Robert Browning is a poem in which a woman named Porphyria is killed by her lover. This man's obsession with Porphyria led him to murder. Through vocabulary, imagery and situation Browning shows us the mind of an obsessed man. The imagery in this poem helps the reader visualize the surroundings and therefore understand the main events in the poem. The opening lines in the poem show a dark dismal night: "The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break." This helps the reader think of a dark evening and a man sitting impatiently for his lover. The pathetic fallacy of those first four lines makes us feel that he thinks the outside is deliberately trying to keep Porphyria away. The next few lines: "She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm." Give us the sense that this woman holds some power over her lover. She seems to take care of him. This sets up a reason why the speaker is obsessed with Porphyria. Dependence is a common feeling associated with love as many people find that they need them to fill holes inside of them. Porphyria is obviously of a higher rank in society by her use of the words "pride and vanity." This "rank" gives her obvious
Compare the two poems 'Porphyria's lover' and 'my last duchess' by Robert Browning. In what way do they form part of a literary tradition?
Compare the two poems 'Porphyria's lover' and 'my last duchess' by Robert Browning. In what way do they form part of a literary tradition? The two poems 'Porphyria's lover' and 'my last duchess' by Robert Browning shows a dramatic monologue. Dramatic monologue is a story that is told by one person; which means you only get one point of view; in the two poems they are based on the narrator's crisis, his feelings and his way of thinking; and you have to believe it because that is the only view your going to encounter. In dramatic monologue because you only get one person telling the story, you have to trust his judgements and criticisms and believe or not believe what is being said. It is hard to trust what the narrator says, because in 'my last duchess' his wife could of acted completely different to how he was describing her, but you wouldn't have known; so we have to speculate about other issues we do not encounter and also contemplate about controversies that can occur about only one side being said. Robert Browning makes the poems very similar in the way he uses poetic devices like similes 'As a shut bud that holds a bee' which was used in 'Porphyria's lover' and in 'my last duchess' the use of simile is used 'Looking as if she was alive'; other poetic devices used are rhetoric device which is used when in 'my last duchess' the duke is trying to persuade the ambassador