Robert Browning Essay Examples Page 2

The narrator in both poems is speaking in the 1st person, amplifying and confessing from the viewpoints of each of the main male characters portrayed in each poem. Mutually the poems display male dominance, along with their arrogance and control of the situation throughout the poems. Traditionally this was probably a typical style used by…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

The two poems I am studying are ‘The Flea’ by John Donne and ‘Porthyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning. The authors of both these poems approach the theme of love in very individual and original ways. I am going to examine both. The poem ‘Porthyria’s Lover’ is about a woman called Porthyria who is strangled to…

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…

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…