My Last Duchess

Myrna Pena-Reyes’ “Breaking Through” and William Carlos William’s “This is Just to Say” expresses the relationship of the persona with another person through the use of different figurative devices. In “Breaking Through”, we see the persona as the daughter and the “you” in the poem as her father. Meanwhile, in the poem “This is Just to Say”, the persona of the poem is the husband, while the “you” in the poem refers to his wife. These two poems present a similar conflict – the persona is…

Jackson Pollock was a psycho-alcoholic. According to the movie Pollock, Jackson Pollock’s work was first exhibited at a show with future wife, Artist Lee Krasner. In the beginning of his career, Pollock’s style of painting was close to the style of Picasso’s art, Cubism. Pollock seemed to have a love/hate feeling for Picasso. He seemed to admire him and maybe had been studying him for so long, like he was trying to crack some sort of code of Picasso’s paintings, but became frustrated that…

In the short story, the question at the end of the story is the Lady or Tiger. I chose The Jealous Princess. And the King’s arena. They said chose one door from two of the doors to see what comes out the lady or the tiger. The semi baric king who was an exhausted, funk, and withal, of the authority so irresistible. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial, but when there was a little hitch. This was the…

Poetry Response 2 The theme is power. Even before the first line of "The Colonel" by Caroline Forché, you know you're dealing with not just a colonel, but the colonel, a man of power. Alongside the speaker, you enter the lair of a military ruler who has position, money, and rank, and who is not afraid to use them. After enjoying the dinner, the maid was called using a gold bell which is indicative of the royal style of living that the colonel lived. The colonel's used to giving orders, and…

An Application for Slavery In Sylvia Plath's poem "The Applicant", a male marriage applicant is being interviewed for his quality as a suitor and his willingness to accept the girl being offered for marriage by the narrator. While the young man is being grilled by the narrator, he does not near experience the harsh narrative treatment that the prospective bride receives, being purposefully deprived of both gendered pronouns and choice of action as part of the arrangement. Plath uses metaphor…

Browning creates the impression that love is a destructive force. The narrator kills Porphyria because of his love for her, commenting how her devotion ‘made my heart swell’ so he ‘wound’ her hair around her throat and ‘strangled her’. Literally, the narrator means he was overcome by his adoration for Porphyria and decided to show that by ending her life, as well as how Porphyria’s sincere confession has gotten her killed. These acts of love both clearly show how disastrous love can be.…

eyes with a stain”. After the speaker twirl her yellow golden hair around her neck she looks at him wanting more. The speaker does so, not realize he had committed a crime however his love for her grows after death. The speaker wants their love to last forever therefore he strangling her. The speaker does not feels guilty because in line 60 he said “And yet God has not said a word!” Since God did not strike him down the speaker feel he did not do anything wrong. Even though he kills her, he felt…

1. What is depicted and description. -Gaspar De Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares and his noble horse seem to be facing or running towards the battle in great confidence. He's wearing a red scarf and a baton which both show authority or leadership in some way. He is well suited up with a beautiful body of armor flaunting power, authority and protection. Count-Duke did not actually fight in what seems to be a battle ahead but he did lead. His confidence in this painting is to the roof, as his face…

In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover”, we get a disturbing and unsettling tale of a man who strangles his lover with her own hair. The tone of this tale becomes even more worrying when you take into account the strict, stable meter that underlines the poem creates a weird tension between the murderous act and the way it is presented. The iambic tetrameter that scores the entire prose, breaks form at certain lines throughout the poem, the first break in the form occurs at…

others may be uncertain of his or her beloved which could lead to jealousy. In the poems “XLIII,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “My Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning, the idea of love exists but the viewpoints are in contrast with each other. The speaker in the poem “XLIII” holds the attitude of positivity and deep affection, while the speaker in “My Last Duchess” carries the attitude of envy and doubtfulness. In spite of the fact of them being in dispute about the attitude towards love,…