My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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Women in 19th Century British Poetry Response: "Porphyria’s Lover‚" "My Last Duchess‚" and "The Leper" The feelings about women in the Victorian period were very disheartening. Women were seen as objects and viewed as less than human. These views were upheld by men who perpetuated a women’s place in society as a pretty thing to look at and nothing more. When a man was tired of her or felt like he could not possess her completely he could kill her as the only way to ensure that she is his forever
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Comparison of Last and Lover) Have you ever been in a relationship before? How did your lover treat you? In room 303 this semester‚ we have gone over many texts. One text we have gone over is My Last Duchess. Another text we have gone over is Porphyria’s Lover. After reading these texts‚ I realized that there are many similarities and differences. Death‚ jealousy‚ and the audience are three things that were either similar or different in these two poems. The first similarity in both Lover and Last‚ was
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shelf full of flowers and vases also there were vases on the floor and the brick walls. The wooden walls eventually opened up to show the venus fly trap. There was one soliloquy that Seymour spoke while there was 2 monologues‚ one from Oren and one from Audrey II. The monologue from Oren was during what I thought was the Climax. It was when Oren was killed from asphyxiation on the laughing gas. If that wasn’t the Climax‚ then it was when Seymour and Audrey were
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Mike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer‚ and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However‚ through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements
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this fact‚ despite being written 150 years apart. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is set in 16th Century Italy. The Duke of Ferrara is discussing the portrait of his last duchess to an envoy of a nobleman‚ whose daughter he is planning to marry. Similarly‚ the contemporary woman in Gabriel Spera’s “My Ex-Husband‚” relates the details of her first marriage to the man in her new relationship. Throughout both dramatic monologues‚ jealousy‚ pride‚ and control blur the lines between illusion and reality
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I have an inclination that this is the last time you will hear from me. OH MY GOODNESS‚ YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS. Rodrigo‚ Cassio‚ and Iago got into a sword fight which has lead to the death of the dear Roderigo. I am sure someone will miss him. Then after that death‚ Iago cut off Cassio’s leg. Everyone comes rushing in. Iago tried to blame it 9n Bianca but no one listened they just wanted to get him some help. Desdemona and Othello did nit show though. Othello decided to kill her tonight. He thought
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Have you seen walking through the village A Man with downcast eyes and haggard face? That is my husband who‚ by secret cruelty Never to be told‚ robbed me of my youth and my beauty; Till at last‚ wrinkled and with yellow teeth‚ And with broken pride and shameful humility‚ I sank into the grave. But what think you gnaws at my husband’s heart? The face of what I was‚ the face of what he made me!
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Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though
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Another Domineering Husband “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue that combines elements of both horror and romance about the Duke of Ferrara who is speaking to the envoy of a count from a neighboring court‚ giving him a tour of the castle and its treasures. Although this poem is spoken by one person‚ it is very specifically addressed to someone else. There are at least two points of view inscribed into the poem: the speaker’s and the addressee’s. This is discovered in the
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