My Last Duchess
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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…
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Robert Browning
Browning and Duffy both introduce their poems using the device of pathetic fallacy. Browning conveys the turbulent state of the lover, by creating a vivid picture of the weather outside the cottage. We could suggest that in both poems the weather is reflective of the lover’s and the assassin’s sate of mind. The weather is…
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I am going to write about three poems, which I think, go into great detail in describing the place or places where the poem is being set. The reason why I picked these poems is that these poems all are very touching to many peoples feelings as they all give the reader great description of…
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The poem “The Early Purges” by Seamus Heaney is about animals which are put to death because they were needless in the human life. The title tells us that something was cleared out young in its life. The word purges means ‘getting rid of’ and early means that the animals were young. The writer tells…
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Seamus Heaney wrote the two poems ‘Follower’ and ‘Death of naturalist’. Seamus Heaney wrote the observed and recollected fact of his childhood rural life, the speaker of these two poems is young Seamus Heaney. His voice is unique. There is often another meaning underneath his poems. He sees thing in different ways and has a…
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Seamus Heaney’s poem “Punishment” illustrates the revival of history through the eyes of an empathetic narrator and a two-thousand year old mummy. Throughout the poem, Heaney uses a very descriptive and imaginative language in order to create a tone of sympathy towards the reader; nevertheless, this tone is accompanied by a tone of adoration and…
My Last Duchess
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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…
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The main similarity about ‘Digging’ and ‘At a Potato Digging’ is that they are obviously, both about digging. But ‘Digging’ is about the writer’s memories of his ‘old man’ and how well he could ‘Digging’. The poem, ‘At a Potato Digging’ is about the potato famine. We know the writer in ‘Digging’ feels comfortable with…
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Seamus Heaney the Irish poet and writer (1939- ) uses a wide variety of words and phrases in his poems to introduce to you his early sensations. Heaney portrays through a number of his poems including ‘Storm on the Island’ and ‘The Early Purges’ early sensations through describing senses such as sound, smell, touch and…
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The Poem Digging deals with Heaney’s relationship with his family. An Advancement of Learning deals with Heaney’s childhood and his fears when he was young and now that he is older how he overcomes those fears. In his poem Digging Heaney is deciding on how he will use his poetry and its relevance to the…
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