My Last Duchess

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. He shows the agent a portrait of a beautiful woman and starts talking about her.…

poetry where an individual is speaking, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning, the poems deal with two men who are in love with beautiful women, to which they kill. The men claim to love their other halves entirely, but why would they murder them? To readers, obsession comes to the mind first. In the two poems, both men perhaps kill their lovers out of jealousy and to gain power in their relationships; however, the man in My Last Duchess admits that he kills his wife, whereas…

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 great desire to…

Robert Browning is considered today as one of most influential poets of all time. Using dramatic monologue which he contributed to poetry, influencing other major poets. In the narrative poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, the author’s life and career affect his poetic work. By using his own background to demonstrate the main character’s actions and desires. Robert Browning’s family was influential in his life. In other words, “The poet’s father had originally wanted to be an artist—he…

Contrast: Last and Lover Nobody especially women like to be compared. No one likes to feel like they’re in competition against somebody else. Once someone starts saying this person has this compared to you then the other person just starts feeling down and maybe even hate towards the certain person, to overtop them. When people are together they expect the full attention always on them and not on anyone else. Can love really take over someone though and push them past boundaries? His last…

Women have had expectations and oppression brought on them for centuries. However, the present does not compare to the discrimination of the distant past and the poems, The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning demonstrate in satirical, but actual works the prejudice on women in society. The poems capture the preconception on women in the past and how men have either belittled or thought of women as subservient beings whose only job is to stay lovely and pure…

In Kate Chopin’s “ My Last Duchess” the main character is describing a painting to a stranger who was his ex wife and expresses his feelings negatively. Making it known that he was against her flirtatious ways and lack of respect. In today’s society, with the increase of divorces…

Stephen Spender, Robert Browning and Margaret Atwood of the texts My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, ¬¬¬My Last Duchess and The Handmaid’s Tale, all represent a sense of power in their corresponding texts through the use of a variety of language techniques embedded in their writing. The poems My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, and My Last Duchess both explore the notion of personal power, while the poem My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough in parallel with…

texts My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, ¬¬¬My Last Duchess and The Handmaid’s Tale, all convey various aspects of power in their corresponding texts through the use of a variety of language techniques embedded in their writing. The poems My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough, and My Last Duchess both explore aspects of personal power, while My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough in parallel with The Handmaid’s Tale look at authoritative power. The poem ¬¬¬My…

Browning has written a variety of poems surrounding the feeling of love. I will be focusing on My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. My Last Duchess is composed as a dramatic monologue and is about an egotistical…