One of the best poets in the Victorian era was Robert Browning. Browning wrote many poems including Porphyria’s Lover, and My Last Duchess. These two texts were very controversial and still are. In a way these are still controversial texts and make people question Browning as a person and his sanity. In My Last Duchess this man is showing his “lovers” agent his house and his 900 year old name, really showing off.…
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Throughout, ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ B.Browning subverts the Victorian idea of ‘courtly love’ admiring Robert and thinking she is the one who isn’t worthy of him. Evident in ‘Sonnet 32’, the metaphor of “more like an out of tune / worn viol” reflects her feelings of unworthiness and admiration for Robert - “...out of tune” reinforces her rejection of the Victorian patriarchy, yet her abandonment of contextual attitudes results in feelings of uncertainty. However, she simultaneously subscribes to traditional, contextual norms - “‘Neath master = hands”. The diction of “master” creates status, and exposes women’s internalised, subservient social position in Victorian society.…
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The two poems I am going to discuss are Robert Browning‘s ‘My Last Duchess’ , and Edgar Allen Poe‘s ‘The Raven’ . I will discuss the way the forms of the poems and how their different structures, one being written in verse and the other in dramatic monologue, effect the reader’s interpretation, lead to an unreliable narrator. I will discuss the use of rhyme and rhythm, and also how the speaker’s psyche and strong emotions, like anger and jealousy in ‘My Last Duchess’ and madness in ‘The Raven’ alter the speaker’s reliability. ‘My Last Duchess’ is written in the form of a dramatic monologue, and uses iambic pentameter to mimic natural speech, as well as using rhyming couplets, which give the poem a faster pace and gives the character a stronger voice.…
Secondly, the author reveals to us the the Duke is a Jealous person. “This grew; I gave commands.” This line shows how the Duke is jealous towards the Duchess because…
In “Porphyria's Lover” by Robert Browning, a girl wanders into the woods and finds a man who would then kill her. There are many comparisons and contrasts you can pull from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. One contrast between Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”, is that one is jealous because of love and the other is jealous for love. In “my Last Duchess”, this man love his wife buts gets angry when she smiles.…
He uses these disturbing scenes to directly attack the male patriarchy back in his time. Browning’s two poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, calls into question the idea of the treatment of women in the Victorian era. In both poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning writes two similar tragic and disturbing stories. Both poems contain men who are mentally disturbed as well as two women they supposedly “love” but end up killing in the end.…
The poem ¬¬¬My Last Duchess alongside the novel The Handmaid’s Tale conveys a strong sense of patriarchal power. Browning demonstrates the patriarchal power of the Duke throughout the whole poem, from a rhyming couplet of the poem “that’s my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive, I call”, the use of personal pronouns emphasises the power the Duke possesses over the Duchess. Browning utilises symbolism, enjambment and an allusion; “Notice Neptune though taming a sea-horse” allowing the observation of a parallel between the relationship of the Duke and the Duchess, and Neptune and the seahorse as the Duke’s intentions to assert dominance over his future Duchess follow the same pattern as Neptune’s taming of the seahorse. Additionally, the euphemism “I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together” makes reference, through alliteration, to the transformation of his last Duchess into a medium to which he is no longer subject to her “trifling” situation and can exert his power and control over who is exposed to her smile.…
It is difficult for some people to go against the beliefs of the majority, especially when a topic is considered too controversial to challenge. In Margaret Atwood’s “My Last Duchess”, this happens to be the case for her female protagonist when her class studies a poem by Robert Browning that is also titled “My Last Duchess”, in which a Duke had his Duchess killed for his own selfish reasons. Unexpectedly, the young girl’s interpretation of the Duke is vastly different from the rest of her class, thereby leading her to struggle with having a contentious opinion in addition to dealing with the realities of womanhood and teenage relationships. The purpose of Robert Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess”, in Margaret Atwood’s short story of the same…
Browning’s My Last Duchess can be seen to almost resemble blank verse with incidental couplets. Thus the couplet has a very different effect to the calming pastoral or measured argument previously mentioned. There is a dramatic quality in the long sentences, exaggerated punctuation and unsettling rhetorical questions such as ‘Will’t please you rise?’ This combined with such a rigid rhyme scheme adds a sinister quality to what Browning called ‘dramatic lyric’ .…