The Lover Essays

Power, control, Superiority, and love are what Robert Browning emphasizes on in the poem “Porphyria’s Lover”. In this dramatic monologue Browning Browning starts off this poem with the words; “rain”, “wind”, “vex”. He makes it obvious that the plot line is not going to be about rainbows and butterflies. (Lines1-4). Porphyria, the speaker’s lover, makes her way to visit this man in the stormy weather, “The rain set early in to-night” / “The sullen wind was soon awake” (Lines 1-2). It is evident

and nature of love in Porphyria’s lover and in My Last Duchess. To portray a comparison between Porphyria’s lover and My Last Duchess it is important to perceive the common thoughts between both of these poems. Firstly both of the poems are forms of dramatic monologues, in which the two lovers express their tale of love and that of agony. Porphyria’s lover is a poem of abnormal love. In this poem, Porphyria’s lover rests in a cottage by the countryside. His lover, blooming young women named Porphyria

“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning exemplifies the gender ideology prevalent during the Victorian era in an unconventional way. The roles of Porphyria as a female and her unnamed, seemingly insane male lover continually develop throughout the poem. During the Victorian era, male figures were generally more dominant within society while females were expected to be passive and submissive, forming a growing power struggle as traditional roles are defied. For the majority of the poem, Porphyria does

“Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” the two poems have many similarities, as well as differences. They are both tales of love, passion, and misery. Through the use of tone, diction, and symbolism, the speaker of each poem exemplifies his psychotic state of mind. The tone of the speaker in “Porphyria’s Lover” differs greatly than that of “My Last Duchess.” Both speakers may have the same end goals, but they present themselves in very different and unique ways. In “Porphyria’s Lover,” Porphyria

problem is exactly the case in Elizabeth Bowen’s rendition of an age-old ballad “The Demon Lover”. This short story’s ending is left up for debate as to who and what occurred, especially in regards to the lover himself. To look at Bowen’s story through the lens of the ballad, the missing details seem to tell a larger picture. Although Mrs. Drover’s ex-fiance is never properly introduced in “The Demon Lover”, there is sufficient evidence to support the assumption that he is a demon, and he took her

The argument in David Eggenschwiler’s article tries to convince the readers that there is a deeper “psychologically complex dramatic monologue”(39) within the poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, by Robert Browning. Eggenschwiler brings up two critics interpretations, quoting their comments on the lack of a character driven piece that Browning is known for producing. By doing this the author gives the reader background to the reasoning behind his defense of this work, while also offering chance to explain his

Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” are an example of works focused on romanticism and confusion. These two dramatic monologues focus on the love and psychological stress lovers get from their partners. Feelings of insecurity, possession, jealousy, and egoism are deep rooted into the plot of these poems. However these poems approach the concept of love differently from two contrasting perspectives. On one side we have “Porphyria’s Lover” who’s speaker is deeply obsessed

poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover has multiple ways they can be individually interpreted. One may focus on the love or attraction presented in each text, or the focus could be the deceit and death within the poem. Both of the poems have rudimentary similarities; male narrators, a beautiful woman who passes, and an eerie uncertainty of why the woman was killed. On the other hand, differences do appear between the poems, for instance, in Porphyria’s Lover it explained exactly how the woman was

At its heart, Browning’s poems explores the destructive and productive capacity of art in life. Both ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ communicate art as a means of control, using the male gaze to objectify women. However, in ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’, Browning invites the reader to scrutinise beneath the surface of aesthetics and confront mortality. ‘My Last Duchess’ reveals the Duke’s struggle for authority, which results in the Duchess becoming a literal piece of art. From the outset,

“The Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” Robert Browning was one of the best poets in the nineteenth century. Browning wrote two poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,”which are two of his many poems in his published piece called Dramatic Lyrics. In both poems the men were possessive and psychopaths. The poems characterize the men as being mentally unstable. The ladies in the poems were strong minded women. Sad to say but the men were intimidated by the women. To end the way

“Porphyria’s Lover” Browning lived in the Victorian age in which love was written from complexities in the mind. He became a master in the style of Dramatic Monologue producing his best works out of all his writings, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. They both are extraordinary pieces of literature that project their words into a deeper meaning through their theme, perspective, and tone. The theme that resurfaces in each of the works, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” is that of

My last duchess is written by Robert Browning which first appeared in 1842, after the Renaissance period. The poem “My last duchess” is set in 16th Century Renaissance Italy. A Duke which holds a nine hundred years old name shows an emissary through his palace. The emissary came to negotiate the Duke’s marriage to a daughter of a powerful family. The Duke later stops before a painting of his last Duchess which was painted directly on the wall. The Duke orders the emissary to sit down and enjoy the

1220-1225). The hag says that she may be physically unattractive; however, she is a good woman and wife, characteristics that make her worthy of love. Furthermore, while the hag earlier suggests that a young, beautiful woman may be prone to having lovers, she also questions this stereotype. After the knight gives her the right to decide whether she should be a hag or a beautiful young woman, she chooses to be “both fair and good” (Chaucer 1241). First, the passage implies that just because someone

with one of the officers. This was a shocking point for her and it caused the shift in her perspective and character. She realized that she was stubborn and gave undeserved loyalty to her husband. I believe that all the characters (mother, sister, lover and others) had a huge impact on that transformation, but the person who had the most impact was Derrick. She was expecting him to work, study, and keep his head down thus he could leave prison early and be back with her. One instance that proved

Francesco Petrarch’s sonnet discusses lost love. The speaker reminisces over his dead lover’s charming features that he misses, while Michael Drayton’s sonnet focuses on the different stages the speaker goes through before he or she accepts that the lovers are separated and hopes that this will change. The two sonnets approach love in different ways. However, they both make use of the sonnet form and a sad tone, as well as imagery that provokes the reader’s senses, as my analysis will attempt to show

How does Miller explore the theme of Betrayal in ‘A View from the Bridge’? Betrayal is an extremely important theme in Arthur Millers 1950’s play ‘A View from the Bridge’. The setting and community of the play, play a vital role in showing this themes significance; with the Italian American Red Hook community underpinned by the law of Omertà, a code that dictates silence and forbade people from cooperating with authorities, an extremely obvious portrayal of how betrayal is loathed within the community

Fitzgerald’s use of symbolism through colours and religious motifs brings out a critique of the pursuit of the American dream, in how such a pursuit of material wealth and status is ultimately consuming. Integral to this essay is our understanding of a relationship between Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy and Gatsby’s pursuit of status. While both pursuits may be viewed as Gatsby’s goals in life, each may also be understood as a means rather than the end. They seemingly share a circular relationship. Gatsby

She comments that she is living “[…] in the woods under an oak tree […]” (27-28) The narrator once believed that the force of “death alone” would part the two lovers. This makes it clear that the speaker acknowledges the force of fate in her life. However, unlike the speakers in the two previous poems, this wife does not accept God into her life, and thus, is not comforted. In the last two lines she says, “woe

‘Wish’ by Carol Ann Duffy is about wishing to resurrect a body. It presents death in rewind and undoes all the suffering that has to do with death. ‘Wish’ is a very personal poem compared to the other poems Carol Ann Duffy had written. However, although it is quite personal, it is also a mixture of being personal and connecting with the public, since it relates to the themes of mistreated women from earlier in her collection of poems. The ‘wish’ in this poem is to undo every suffering; to resurrect

It is “foolish men” who fail to see that acute insightfulness is a vehicle for precise thinking. Nevertheless, the speaker shuns drawing conclusions about whether the creation of art contributes to, or ease madness, by attributing her speculations to theories others have proposed. In the final lines of the poem, however, she endorses the decision to explore dark corners of the mind and expand the limitations of the self by drawing attention to the affective dimension of the work, the beneficent effect