Tod Browning

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.…

given an assignment in english where I have to select two or three poems and analysis them. I’ve been searching poems for about a week and there are two particular poems stood out to me. These poems are ‘How do I love thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe. I chose these poems as they stood out from the crowd and caught my attention. It was the love that drew me in and the tragedy that captured me. The first stanza of the poem begins like a fairy tale, as it…

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…

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…

Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution Christopher Browning systematically searches through historical records to trace the actions of the Nazi police Battalion 101. This battalion consisted of older, middle-aged men who joined the police battalion to avoid conscription and the frontline, by all means these men were normal and respectable however, during the Final Solution they were turned into hardened killers. Browning evaluates the factors that these men experienced and attempts…

Poems happen to be words that mean more than they look. May they express a message, describe someone’s point of view of his/her life or anything, poems are able to do so much with so little. Such is how famous poet of the 19th century Robert Browning managed to do with his writings. Through his writings of My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, we will look upon the way that he believes men would become alongside women. Replaced for stronger than interesting To start it off, let’s discuss…

Robert Browning’s poems, most notably, “Porphyria’s Lover and “My Last Duchess,” are two works that share a common theme. This theme began to arise in the living years of Browning, but has become more prominent in todays world. Both poems exhibit men who are seemingly normal in the beginning but at the end we find are very disturbing. Both men were in a loving relationship with a woman who they presumably killed. Much discussion has come about from these two poems, not because of the blatant…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

Brontë has an interesting look on hope. In her poem called “life” she explains some days you might have rough cloudy days, causing you to trudge but hope will pick you up and your despair will vanish. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson has a slightly different look comparing hope to an undefeatable bird. The theme they have in common is hope, though it is described In different ways it has similar qualities. In Charlotte Bronte’s poem, “Life” she explains life will not be perfect, you will wake…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” is an exemplar of the poetic ability of famous writers to reflect the physical and emotional elements of a story within the music and aesthetics of poetry. In this essay I will examine the technical and aesthetic elements that create this famous ballad. While paraphrasing this poem, I will analyze how those elements create the extreme success of the poem. Through close analysis of Tennyson’s poem, I will reveal these elements that have made “The…