My Last Duchess Essays
The two poems ‘Porphyria’s lover’ and ‘my last duchess’ by Robert Browning shows a dramatic monologue. Dramatic monologue is a story that is told by one person; which means you only get one point of view; in the two poems they are based on the narrator’s crisis, his feelings and his way of thinking; and…
My Last Duchess is an example of a dramatic monologue. It is written in the first person an Italian Duke. The audience the Duke is speaking to is a representative of a count whose daughter the Duke wishes to marry. The Duke shows the representative a painting done of his late wife, his duchess. He…
Robert Browning was writing his poems at the time Queen Victoria was on the throne. He was born in 1812 and died in Venice in 1889. During his life he wrote many poems, two of which were ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’. These are the poems we are going to be studying. During Browning’s…
This poem has one main theme and a minor theme behind it. It is about jealousy and his obsession of his last married love. Throughout the poem, we can really feel his jealousy escalating. He has a beautiful, life like painting of her, which he keeps under a curtain. He keeps her under a curtain,…
In Porphyria’s Lover, Browning sets the scene by describing the turbulent weather. The vexatious wind blowing on the trees and the moody lake is a metaphor of the Lover’s mind in the poem. It symbolises the violence and anger he has within himself. The Lover is full of hatred inside. The bad weather images is…
‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ are poems written by Robert Browning in the form of a dramatic monologue. They both contain themes of love, jealousy, contempt and obsession. In the beginning of ‘My Last Duchess’ the Duke is speaking about his wife’s portrait to an envoy. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ the Lover is speaking directly…
These two poems have many things in common they both are written by the same poet Robert Browning. ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are written through the eyes of the murder and are dramatic monologues. I suppose they can be seen as biased and one sided as the story is only told by one…
I am studying three poems from the Romantic Movement anthology ‘Love and Loss’. They are ‘A Birthday’ and ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti, and ‘My last Duchess’ by Robert Browning. The Romantic Movement was the start of a creative revolution. Romanticism is the term used to describe a movement in European literature, art and music. In…
These three poems have a lot in common in the fact that some of the themes are the same, but each poem differs with content and atmosphere, along with some themes. John Donne’s ‘The Flea’ shows the poet trying to get his girlfriend to sleep with him by comparing his lust to a flea. Donne…
A dramatic monologue is a poem that is written in the form of a speech or narrative by a person who has been imagioned, in which the speaker undeliberately reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. In Porphyria’s lover the speaker is in fact the lover and in…
Both poems “Remember” and “My Last Duchess” seek to convey a view of love. However they are different, to an extent it is the reader who may wonder if the writers are writing about the same thing. Love is always thought of as selfless and pure. This is true in the poem “Remember” by Christina…
In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ he wants to control her feelings – when she finally does love him he kills her to control the fact that she does love him and she always will whereas if she were still alive she would stop loving him and he would have no control over that. The way the lover…
Both ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are poems which were written by the poet Robert Browning who was one of the great poets of the Victorian age. Both of these poems were written during the years 1812 – 1889. I feel that the era in which they were created in is extremely important, as…
I am contrasting the poems, “My Last Duchess” and “On the Departure Platform”. Both poems, although are written in very much contrasting styles, share a central theme of loss and separation of a women. It must be taken into consideration that these poems would have been written in the 19th Century when society may still…
In this essay there will be three poems being described and evaluated. The first poem is “First Love” which is written by John Clare. The second poem is “Porphyria’s lover” which is written by Robert Browning. The last poem is “My Last Duchess” which is written by the same poet Robert Browning. In “First love”…
The four poems that I have chosen to address love and loss are “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, and “Shall I compare thee…?” and “Let me not” by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s sonnets address eternal and true love, whereas Browning’s poems explore the themes of passionate, consuming love and its consequences. Love…
These quotes show us that the Duke is very arrogant and how he believes he is so much better than everyone, this can be seen in both quotes as in the first quote he believes his name is much better than anything else, and more so in the second quote as he believes himself to…
In these ten very elemental lines of the poem, Browning successfully exposes the true motives of his speaker, the duke, through his voice of reason at play during conversation with a potential “father-in-law. ” At this point in the text, his audience discovers the reasons for his “failed marriage” with his former wife, and also…
In Brownings My Last Duchess, it appears that the Duke would have had the Duchess attend only to him. The Duchess is portrayed as someone that is easily pleased. In the passages: twas not Her husband’s presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek She had A heart — how shall I…
ogue. A dramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The Duke is speaking to an envoy about his first wife who is apparently dead. From what he is telling him, one can conclude that he is…
The Poems “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “Musee des BeauxArts” by W.H. Auden describes how people don’t care about each other andthat world is cruel. In “My Last Duchess” the guy is talking the messengerfrom the duchess about how he killed his wife and was happy about it, whereas in“Musee des Beaux Arts”…
LoverMike SobierajEnglish 203Roger GilbertThe Lover and the DukeThe creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer, and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However, through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able…
My Last DuchessIn “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, we are introduced to the dramatic monologue. In a dramatic monologue, the speaker unknowingly reveals his personality through his speech. In this poem, the audience listens to a conversation between the Duke and a nameless envoy who are making the final arrangements for the Duke’s second…
