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Throughout history love has been a favoured theme with many poets in their writing. Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1958) tackles the issue of love in her poem “Valentine,” as does Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) in the poem “Love’s Philosophy,” and finally Robert Burns (1759-1796) considers the topic in “A Red Red Rose. ” As different […]
Some people, as history portrays, achieve great things in life, some do not. What we achieve or what we do not achieve in life is unimportant because eventually death reduces us all to the same level ” Death the Leveller” by James Shirley was written around the time of the English Civil War. The poem […]
The Author Percy Bysshe Shelley, the author of “Ode to the West Wind”, was a significant part of the English literary period we now refer to as the Romantic Age which ran from 1798 to 1832. The most prominent features of the Romantic period were the reflected effects of the American and French Revolutions, as […]
When we attempt a general assessment of Robert Browning’s poetic caliber and overall achievement, his multi-faceted genius and his rarer treatment of love and its myriad moods and manifestations, all this strike our mind and heart intensely. The most characteristic of Browning’s poetry is his love-lyrics which remains the first and foremost of his total […]
Shelley effectively conveys the message that technology should not interfere with nature. She does this by contrasting technology and nature, questioning the impact of advancements on personal and spiritual growth during the Industrial Revolution in Europe and Britain. The impression is that reliance on technology hinders soul development. When individuals become slaves to machines instead […]
Comparing the effects of an identified or unidentified narrative voice in two or three works of literature studied has highlighted the importance of this feature. It plays a crucial role in shaping how the content of a poem is presented. It is common for poets to utilize identified personas to express unfavorable viewpoints, as seen […]
In Robert Browning’s “Porphyria Lover” poem, both the speaker and Porphyria have a desire to dominate their relationship. But Porphyria constantly trying to be the most dominant creates tension. This makes it difficult for the speaker to fulfill his role as a man, and he struggles to meet Porphyria’s expectations. However, when the speaker is […]
Robert Browning was one of England’s most celebrated poets from the Victorian era. His literary pieces mirror his strong confidence as well as his faith in the importance of human existence. In Pippa Passes, one of his verse plays, he articulated his conviction that the Almighty is His paradise and that everything is true with […]
In both stories there is a murder. These murders are committed by a lover. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ the murderer is the man. He murdered her to keep her pure and to himself. He thought that Porphyria would have wanted him to do it. He also thought that she loved him a lot. He thought this […]
Robert Browning is one of the foremost poets of the Victorian era and his most noted contribution to English literature is undoubtedly the literary form of the Dramatic Monologue, which was not independently developed but none the less firmly established by him. His first poem Pauline was published anonymously in 1833 and Browning sent twelve […]
The four poems that I am going to compare all have some things in common and some things that are very different. For example, the people in the poem all feel some kind of jealousy for somebody else, but in all four poems this jealousy is portrayed in different ways. In the poem “The Laboratory” […]
The writer of both of the poems is Robert Browning. They were written in the 19th century and as such there are many differences and similarities within the poems, of which some can be easily seen such as death, love and the idealisation of woman. The death of the last duchess can be seen as […]
In this piece of coursework I will be looking at the two poems; The Laboratory by Robert Browning and Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy. I will be looking at how the poets convey the extreme reactions of the woman in the poems that have been hurt by men. I will tackle the question by looking […]
Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the Nineteenth Century. He was an English poet who was especially noted for his dramatic monologues. During the Nineteenth Century, Robert Browning wrote a series of poems. Two of which were popular, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. These two monologues have similar themes; how men […]
Both poems are written in dramatic monologue. In both poems they both show their feelings and attitudes towards their lovers. Both poems show male dominance and their control of the whole situation throughout the poem. This was probably traditional at Browning’s time that the man is strong and the poor woman is the weak victim. […]
The poet Robert Browning of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and the writer of ‘First Love’, John Clare, both delve into the complexity of love in many ways, some similar and others contrasting. The most apparent similarity is that both poems are written in the style of a monologue. Throughout these poems the reader is enlightened only to […]
I will compare A Women to Her Lover by Christina Walsh, How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, When We Two Parted by Lord Byron, Remember by Christina Rossetti and Villegiature by Edith Nesbit. In the poems I have chosen four are written by women and one by a man and I think […]
The theme of love is a one that comes up very often in all of Browning’s poems, not just in Love Among the Ruins. We see it in Porphria’s Lover, Andrea Del Sarto, My Last Duchess, A Lover’s Quarrel and many more. Browning himself was a devoted husband and father who was a follower in […]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and Robert Browning’s poems Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess, are works written in the Victorian period in which traditional gender stereotypes are both subverted and reaffirmed. As the works progress, a pattern of initial subversion followed by eventual domination and conformity is discovered. It is thus made clear to […]
A Dramatic monologue is a lyric poem in which a single imaginary speaker or a historical personage expresses his thoughts and feelings to an imaginary silent audience. The dramatic monologue as we understand it today “is a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing himself in the context of a dramatic […]
When we attempt a general assessment of Robert Browning’s poetic caliber and overall achievement, his multi-faceted genius and his rarer treatment of love and its myriad moods and manifestations, all this strike our mind and heart intensely. The most characteristic of Browning’s poetry is his love-lyrics which remains the first and foremost of his total […]
Firstly, a little insight into ‘the laboratory’ is that it is set in the ancien regime of pre-revolutionary france. It imagines an incident in the life of Marie Madelin Marguenie. She poisoned her father and two brothers and planned on killing her husband, with, you guessed it: poison. The laboratory cleverly uses language and structure […]
