Robert Browning Essay Examples

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…

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…

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…

Robert BrowningThe creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the mostdifficult challenges to a writer, and development to a level at which the readeridentifies with them can take a long time. However, through the masterful use ofpoetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathingcharacters in sixty or…

Robert BrowningB. J. GilstrapEnglishMarch 20, 1999Biography of Robert BrowningRobert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell (a suburb of London), the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet’s grandfather had…

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…

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…

To begin with, I am going to give a brief contextual background of the poem. Robert Browning, who lived during the 1800s, was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic verse, especially the dramatic monologue, made him one of the most famous poets of the Victorian era. One of his more sensational…

To be able to create a perceptibly vivid character in literature can be considered to be one of the greatest challenges in the literary world, and doing so to a level where the reader can truly empathise with the created character is a greater feat still. In this matter Browning truly was a literary genius…

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…