The first poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is clearly a case of a man who has to much control. The poem is about an extremely wealthy man, who has a good upper class last name. This man has a gorgeous girl who has problem smiling, tis really doesn't seem like much of a problem, but for this power hungry aristocrat it is his downfall. Steve Taylor Ph.D from Physcological Today, ¨Women effectively live as prisoners, unable to leave the house except under the guardianship of a male guardian.¨ This quote shows how women were
In Porphyria’s Lover, the only reference we have to the supernatural is towards the end. After Porphyria’s lover murders her, he makes a frightening reference towards God, “In one long yellow string I wound/ Three times her little throat around, /And strangled her. No pain felt she;/ I am quite sure she felt no pain/…And thus we sit together now,/And all night long we have not stirred,/ And yet God has not said a word!”(39-42,58-60). In Porphyria’s Lover, we see Porphyria’s murderer mock God for not taking any action against him for the murder that he just committed against his own lover. All night long he sits with the women he has just murdered and God never sends down any punishment on him for it.
Misogyny is a theme throughout most literature work for centuries. Robert Browning in “My Last Duchess,” is a monologue about a duke who is from Ferrara, Italy. In the poem, the duke is talking to a nobleman whom is the father of his future wife. The duke explains why he murdered his previous wife who was just seventeen years old and is warning the matchmaker and his future wife that if she does not remain obedient, then the duke will not hesitate to murder her either. Andrew Marvel in “His Coy Mistress,” writes a monologue about a man wanting to have sex with a shy woman before marriage.
Through the Duke’s abuse of power, love is presented in a negative way throughout ‘My Last Duchess’. Throughout the poem, Browning uses a heroic couplet in order to signify his grandiose nature; he views himself as a superior being who nobody can ever surpass. This is reinforced when the Duke juxtaposes the different gifts the Duchess received he specifically stated that ‘as if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name / With anybody’s gift.’ Juxtaposition is used in order to highlight the significance of the Duke’s gift. Browning specifically mentioned the name of the Duke’s gift to put emphasis on the meaningful surname he has gifted the Duchess, nevertheless giving him a reason to command and control her. Due to his individual
The Murderer and The Duke (Compare and Contrast Last and Lover) In both stories written by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, Robert brings up how both of the women in each story die in some way, one that we don’t know of and we still are asking the question and the other by being murdered. Each story has a different twist to it though they both speak up on the same topic, death. Death is something not everyone expects to reader, especially with titles like these ones but it is always a good thing to have a nice twist within them. Both Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess speak up on the death of each women but one story doesn’t really get into the details while the other does which leaves a bunch of questions to be asked.
My Last Duchess," distributed in 1842, is ostensibly Browning's most popular sensational monolog, in light of current circumstances. It connects with the peruser on a few levels – verifiable, mental, unexpected, dramatic, and that's just the beginning. The most captivating component of the sonnet is likely the speaker himself, the duke. Unbiasedly, it's anything but difficult to recognize him as a creature, since he had his better half killed for what appears to be harmless wrongdoings. But then he is astonishingly enchanting, both in his utilization of dialect and his approachable address.
It becomes apparent that the murder of the duchess sprung from feelings the duke had towards her. He was angry with her for “[ranking]/ [His] gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name/ With anybody’s gift” (Browning line 31-33) and “gave commands;/then all smiles stropped together” (Browning 45-46). Furthermore, he uncovers views his new duchess as “[his] object” (Browning line 53) like another other owned proporty. Thus, the speaker shows a psychological reality of pure, planned murder from jealousy, disdain, and hatred towards his “last duchess” (Browning line 1), which exposes a psychological reality that his intentions were to get ride of problem and boast about it in the dramatic
Through the Duke’s abuse of power, love is presented in a negative way throughout ‘My Last Duchess’. Throughout the poem, Browning uses a heroic couplet in order to signify his grandiose nature; he views himself as a superior being who nobody can ever surpass. This is reinforced when the Duke juxtaposes the different gifts the Duchess received he specifically stated that ‘as if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name / With anybody’s gift.’ Juxtaposition is used in order to highlight the significance of the Duke’s gift. Browning specifically mentioned the name of the Duke’s gift to put emphasis on the meaningful surname he has gifted the Duchess, nevertheless giving him a reason to command and control her. Due to his individual
It also describes the characters of the Duke because he is obsessed with being in control. The Duke reveals his manipulative characteristics through the poem. The poem is composed of several terms and phrases that describe the Dukes personality, and his views about officiousness. He is obviously overly confident, and believes that his Duchess should worship his every move. According to him, the Duchess did not treat the Duke with the respect that he wished, and, consequently, he gave orders to kill her.
While the narrative persona in “My Last Duchess” demands his wife to devote her love to him, the protagonist of “La Belle Dame sans Merci” devotes to the woman he loves even though the love is unrequited. This is evident through the repetition of the line “On the cold hill side.” throughout the poem. The noun phrase “cold hill” suggests that the knight is lonely and depressed when he waits for the woman solely, however unlike the narrative persona of “My Last Duchess”, he would not demand the woman to love him instead he would wait patiently until the day his affection towards her is