Robert Browning’s use of the poetic speaker in dramatic monologues allows him to objectively create a dramatic situation while removing himself as a personality from the poem. This is accompished through a process called double masking‚ in addition to the primary creation of the character or speaker‚ there exists a secondary creation‚ a mask which the speaker uses in dealing with the dramatic situation at hand (Garratt 116). The nature of the poetic speaker in Browning’s dramatic monologue demonstrates
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Country Lovers Kimberly Robinson ENG 125-Introduction to Literature Katherine Ness March 8‚ 2010 Literature is a wonderful journey that takes you into an imaginary experience that will take you away from your everyday life into an entire new world. Literature has a way of providing you with entertainment while educating you of many different facts and situations. It teaches you new perspectives to look at daily situations. You are pulled away from a living‚ breathing world into one that
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The song “Stan” by rap artist Eminem fits the dramatic monologue format popularized by Robert Browning‚ because in Eminem’s song‚ Stan fits all of the characteristics of the Duke in My last Douches. Stan is extremely obsessive; in the beginning of the song he dies his hair and is trying to actually become Slim Shady‚ even his outfit and style are the same as Slim and is screaming in his girlfriend’s face because she keeps calling him Stanly when I would imagine he would want to be called Slim‚ or
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Turner Kela English 1C 18 January 2013 Dr. Williams L. James Country Lovers Every culture has their own judgment on love and how it’s suppose to go? Whoever said love came with a manual and rules to tell how to love or who to love? There are negative and positive outcomes‚ that comes along with it. Country Lovers shows the readers what love and intimacy meant to them and how it affected their lives because they broke the “rules” in both of their cultures. They live in an abnormal lifestyle
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writing. Recently I have had the pleasure of reading the short story “Country Lovers”‚ by Nadine Gordimer and in this paper I will explain how she used the narrative elements of plot‚ theme and point of view to enhance her story and make it a richer experience. The story “Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story about love and race. This story starts with a childhood love and grows into adulthood. “Country Lovers” is a story that deals with a forbidden love between a black woman named Thebedi
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Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” written in 1836 explores and undermines the complex gender stereotypes regarding power and authority present in the nineteenth century. The typical stable male figure is absent. Instead‚ the male narrator is extremely capricious and erratic in nature‚ making for an unusual story. Porphyria‚ the female in the poem‚ also undermines regular stereotypes. On a deeper level‚ Porphyria seems to be the one with the power even although physically she gets strangled. The
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“Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story of an inter-racial love between a slave and her master’s son. It demonstrates how the prejudice and racism destroys the innocent. To have a deeper understanding of the story‚ and understand what the author seeks to communicate through it‚ one must analyze the underlying theme (Clugston‚ 2010). “Country Lovers” is a story set in the time when owning African Americans was acceptable in society. In this story‚ children of slaves and slave owners
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Country Lover’s: A Forbidden Lover Story I chose to discuss the short story by Nadie Gordimer‚ Country Lovers‚ I will identify the theme and the literary elements that helped me with my analysis. I would consider the story Country Lovers to be the story of racial barriers that created a forbidden love story. There are many literary elements that aid my analysis‚ and support my interpretation of the stories theme. I will discuss how symbolism‚ characters‚ and settings supported the forbidden
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a very prominent poet during the Victorian Era (1837-1901). Browning differed from many other women because she wrote about social and political issues that a typical woman would not address. She openly addressed and challenged the position of women during this time period‚ which was not something that was common. Consequently‚ not only was the content of her poetry significant‚ but she greatly impacted the works of other poets‚ such as Robert Browning‚ through her own
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“Porphyria’s Lover‚” which first appeared in 1836‚ is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning’s dramatic monologues. The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside. His lover‚ a blooming young woman named Porphyria‚ comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage. She embraces the speaker‚ offering him her bare shoulder. He tells us that he does not speak to her. Instead‚ he says‚ she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures
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