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    In the poems, Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Let me describe for you her eyes by Glenn Colquhoun, the writers have used many different language techniques to show their thoughts on relationships. In Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy uses metaphors and personification to communicate her ideas about love. She thinks that love isn’t always good and joyful and can be miserable and heart breaking. In Let me describe for you her eyes, Glenn Colquhoun uses metaphors and similes to let the readers know his…

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    Introduction to Author Oscar Wilde was a Anglo- English author, playwright, novelist, critic and poet. He was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England, known for his brilliant wit, flamboyant style. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine can be clearly summarized by the phrase ‘art for art’s sake’. In 1890, he…

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    The characters portrayed by Browning in his dramatic monologues are various and often rise from the world of the Italian Renaissance. From the artist Fra Lippo Lippi who has become a monk without his will, to Andrea del Sarto, a great painter who has subordinated his art to the demands of an exploitative wife, Browning manages to reveal the true value of art. The pictures of great artists blended with historical detail are embodied in his poems. Vasari’s Lives of the artistsis the source of the…

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    Montagu’s relationship to the subsequent formation of Orientalist aesthetics is another relevant area of study. Grundy points to Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a relevant parallel to Montagu’s experience, arguing it as a potential citation on Woolf’s part. More recently, Alison Winch’s article “‘Drinking a Dish of Tea With Sappho’: The Sexual Fantasies of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lord Byron” discusses Byron’s reported fascination with Montagu; he supposedly occupied her same Venetian house…

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    to eliphalet remington. john browning has shown an interest in gun building when he built his brother a gun for his birthday. When John Moses Browning got his first real hand in designing and fabricating his first gun he was only 10, Browning made it out of an old barrel and some scrap wood laying around the shop. Browning used the gun to go hunting some prairie chickens that were roosting around his house. weather it was a overcharge or the rust in the barrel browning and his brother killed 3…

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    A tattoo is like poetry, because there is always more to the story than what meets the eye! The sonnet “First Poem for You” by Kim Addonizio is a riveting piece of poetry that uses symbolization to help readers understand the narrator’s emotions and feelings towards her partner. Visual and tactile imagery used within this poem help explain the meaning of the poem. The theme is longevity and the true meaning of a relationship. In “First Poem for You,” Addonizio creates a fictional character…

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    Life is full of love and hate. Love is widely considered the beautiful side of life, while hate is thought of as the ugly side. With this popular view on love, people might not realize the evil it can imbed in those who experience it. Robert Browning’s poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both depict how the speakers commit terrible acts when their possessive and obsessive love towards their women becomes too strong. The speakers of the poems both kill their lovers as they share a…

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    My Last Duchess Essay

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    Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess” is about a powerful Duke and his late wife. He is showing a portrait painted on the wall of his duchess and describing her to someone. The portrait seems to be full-length and highly realistic because the duke remarks that “there she stands” (4). The duke immediately seems somewhat sinister. He even speaks of the duchess as if she were a possession referring to her as “[his] last duchess” throughout the poem. The poem both begins and ends with the Duke…

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    Love is a manical thing. Sometimes it can push people to do things that they normally wouldn’t do. Robert Browning writes about how love can change people. In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, he tells about how a man became to irrationally afraid that he killed his wife. 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…

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    and everyone, including his wife. His need for control his mirrored in his relationship with the count’s agent. He is a patriarchal figure, who views himself as the more significant of the two sexes. He is proud of his “nine-hundred-years name” (Browning 33) and is upset that his wife could only treat him like she treated other men. He could not comprehend how such a woman, from a lower social class, could possibly not be under his control. To him, she was an object for him to possess and when…

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