Browning

Poetry has had an immense impact on our society today. Obviously there are some big names that have come up from poetry writings in our past. A lot of famous poems have popped up as well. Robert Browning was a name that really stood out. He is now one of the most important poets of the Victorian era. After not having much success in the beginning of his writing career, a spark was ignited at the death of his wife. This is when he began to write on a very intellectual level. He became extremely…

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem written in the form of a dramatic monologue. In it, the speaker describes the portrait of his late wife to the servant of a prospective bride’s father. Throughout the description, the speaker’s sociopathy is made increasingly clear, with the heavily implication that he was the actual cause of the wife’s demise. Browning reveals the prideful, control-obsessed, and sociopathic character of the speaker through self-boasting, caesuras in the monologue,…

In the poem Porphyria’s Lover, by Robert Browning, I believe that the central theme is obsession. Throughout the poem, the narrator has what I believe to be an unhealthy obsession with a woman named Porphyria. The lover’s twisted and warped idea of love ultimately leads to Porphyria’s, and possibly his own, death. For starters, I could detect right off the bat that the love that the lover held for Porphyria was unhealthy. You can see this without reading the poem and by simply reading the title…

Author Laurence Perrine states in his article, "Browning 's Shrewd Duke", “I shall contend, quite otherwise, that the Duke, vain and proud as he assuredly is, is also a shrewd bargainer and master diplomat who, while exposing himself fully to the reader, not improbably obtains high commendation from the…

opinion of himself and his misogynistic views were significant throughout the poem. The poet’s use of rhetorical questions imply the reader must agree with the Duke – he wants to justify his behaviour as if it’s normal, and his commanding presence. Browning shows, in a clever way, that commenting on a certain subject can reveal more about the person making the comments than the subject itself. The Duke comments on his wealth, tries to justify and objectifies the Duchess anew, as the poem is set…

form to best express their ideas on significant issues such as love and emotion, which must be inherently influenced by their own context. The ‘Sonnets of the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barret Browning (EBB) were initially private, personal reflections and a poetic documentation of her courtship with Robert Browning during the Victorian period. ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a longer text where the characters are strongly developed and falsely striving to live and accomplish the…

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is a twisted plot, because at the end of the poem the speaker is the killer. Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue; the speaker is expressing emotion about his uninvited lover. It’s a dark stormy night and Porphyria enters in the speaker home. Porphyria shut the door to the speaker home and warms his home. Then she grabs the speaker attention by seducing him; she let her damp hair falls on her shoulder and she undress herself. She lets her body speak for…

Robert Browning was a genius when it came to his poetry, many thought him brilliant, yet they were also skeptical of his work because of how dark and disturbing some found it to be. Browning’s work was found to earry and sketchy by many because the treatment of women in multiple of his poems. Some of these poems include “My Last Duchess,” “Life in a Love,” and “Porphyria’s Lover.” Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is found disturbing because of the finale statements made by the speaker and even more…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning praised his poetry in her work and on January 10th, 1845, Robert Browning wrote a letter to her. As a middle-aged woman, Browning didn’t believe she could be the object of a romantic love. In his book about the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, H.W. Preston states, “Her sickness caused her to to feel dead to hope of any kind” (18). Robert Browning was six years younger than Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and was filled with energy and good health…

special interest the poem “My Last Duchess.” She comprehends the appeal of power and how the Duke is consumed by the idea of power and control. The Duke establishes his power by willpower alone: “I gave my commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together” (Browning 45-46). The narrator hopes one day to project these characteristics of the…