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Porphyrias Lover Dramatic Monologue
1,099 wordster> Compare the two poems Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century? Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842, he published Dramatic Lyrics which included the two poems Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. In Porphyrias Lover Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover, who wishes the m...
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Porphyria Lover And My Last Duchess
1,140 words... e way she poses for the portrait and the reader can sense his jealousy over the way she is looking at the painter, Fr Pandolf. The Duke gives the impression that he thinks the painter is his wifes lover. The Duke belittles the Duchess joy in life and shows a scathing attitude towards the pleasure she gets from the simple things in life - a sunset, or a bough of cherries. Conversely, the reader gets the impression that the Duchess has a kind, happy nature, who finds joy in all things, though ...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol Pet Dog
1,283 wordsJoyce Oates The Lady with the Pet Dog has a strange and suspenseful structure. When reading the story, the reader senses confusion, much like the life of Anna. The author reveals Annas character through the structure of the story, and through the imagery in the story. Alfred Kazin said that Annas life seems to move through a world wholly physical in its detail (Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 11 313). Annas life throughout the story is disordered and repetitious. Linda W. Wagner says Oates ...
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Section Of The Poem Make The Decision
1,373 wordsBrilliant poets surface many times by creating their individual styles of writing. They obtain their glory from their crafted masterpieces designed in ways like no other. Such is the case of Robert Browning and his dramatic monologue. Starting with Porphyrias Lover, he went on to perfect this form authoring many famous works in the process. This poem, once a collection under the title, The Madhouse Cells, depicts an unhealthy affair from a madman's perspective. In Robert Brownings dramatic monol...
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Duke Of Ferrara Dramatic Monologue
1,963 wordsRobert Browning utilized the format of the dramatic monologue, the creation of expectation and surprise, and extensive use of figurative language to support the theme of possessive love in his works "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover." The dramatic personae in these works provide surprising accounts of their tormented and often jealous love and the results of their actions determine the startling revelations within each monologue. Their possessive love not only drives them to violent acts,...
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Listened With Heart Fit Sat By His Side Love
1,152 words... hat the rain would set in late at some other expected time. The feeling of hope that things might have worked the way love wanted them to! In the next line the use of sullen is actually the word that cements the fact that there are opposing forces working against love. Moreover the sheer potency that the force of wind represents shows the odds that the passion of love is up against. Even though the reader has no idea what the poem is going to bring but the mention of the force of wind is eno...
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Smooth White Shoulder Bare White Shoulder Bare Lover
1,097 words... Porphyria sat beside her lover just like a child snuggles beside his mother. She could feel the same calm and repose that a child feels at the side of his mother. But from here starts the strange union of sense with feelings, of adoration with desires as she reaches out to her lover and finds him not responding to her, she at once realizes that he was going through the motions of that emotion which a child encounters when after getting noticed by his mother he wants to be pampered. She put m...
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Prentice Hall Robert Frost
1,105 wordsThe Lover not taken Trying to understand and analyze literature, it is also necessary to discuss the trends in literature at that time. But no matter how the discussion would be organized it is evident that the most important themes explored in literature are love and hate; man and his perception of the reality: and choice that a man should make. It should be pointed that post-Renaissance life and literature illustrates the influence of scepticism upon philosophy and literature. For a long time ...
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Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem
2,459 wordsWhy is Similarity the Main Basis for Attraction? There can be many different definitions to what attraction is. Indeed, the aforementioned concept is rather elusive in its nature and demands a close examination in order to pose some valid points concerning the question what attraction actually is. However, it appears that the basis any sort of attraction is similarity of forms that compose any feeling or desire produced by human nature. Let us further discuss as to how it happens. Loving ourselv...
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Damsel In Distress Millers Tale
1,837 wordsIn his The Millers Tale Chaucer presents a side of the courtly love tradition never seen before. His characters are average middle class workers rather than elite nobility. There is an interesting comparison between the Millers characters and those in two of Marie de Frances lai's that share very close plot lines. Instead of being idealized Chaucer's characters are gritty. Instead of being involved in " courtly love" there is some evidence that the relationship between Alison and Nicho...
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Gwendolyn Brooks Rhyme Scheme
2,531 wordslove note I: surely Surely you stay my certain own, you stay My you. All honest, lofty as a cloud. Surely I could come now and find you high, As mine as you ever were; should not be awed. Surely your word would pop as insolent As always: ? Why, of course I love you, dear. ? Your gaze, surely, unglazed as I could want. Your touches, that never were careful, what they were. Surely? But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow That was my clean naivete and my faith. ...
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Fall In Love First Speech
1,333 wordsIn Phaedrus, Plato discusses different aspects and degrees of love and rhetoric. The work is centered on three speeches and a final discussion of truth. Phaedrus reads the first speech, written by Lysias, to Socrates. It suggests that a person should not fall in love, or give favors to those that love them. Lysias defends his position by proclaiming that the lover is mad. He also says that by falling in love, one loses all sense of logic and reason. Socrates takes the position of Lysias in the s...
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Concept Of Love Porphyrias Lover
1,250 wordsMy Last Duchess and Porphyrias Lover. Robert Browning wrote the two poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyrias Lover. Both poems convey an thoughtful, examination profound commentary about the concept of love. communicates two interpretations concerning Both poems describe the behavior of people who are in loving, romantic relationships. There are several aspects common in both poems. Using the literary technique of dramatic dialogue, the author reveals the plot and central idea of each poem. Robert ...
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William Shakespeare Romeo Shakespeare Romeo And Juliet
543 wordsThe Petrachan lover has many characteristics. The Petrachan lover is attracted to beauty, and list physical characteristics. He idealizes his mate. He is normally infatuated with his lover. The Petrachan lover uses many metaphors and similes. He is smooth, fancy, and very flowery. Finally, he is blazon. All of the previous describe the main character in William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is an ideal Petrachan lover. And at times, being a Petrachan lover causes him more pain than joy. ...
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One Should Love Driven By Passion Lover
963 wordsLoving happens as natural as the rising of the sun. At some point in our lives, we all profess to love someone or something. For as long as the word and notion of love has existed, there have been innumerable attempts to explain just what love is and whom we should or should not love. Even the Bible, commands its believers to love their neighbors, family, friends, and enemies as they love themselves. The Phaedrus, one of Plato's greatest dialogues delves into the love in terms of who would be be...
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Lover Browning
2,290 wordsCompare the two poems? Porphyria? s Lover? and? My Last Duchess? by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century? Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842, he published? Dramatic Lyrics? which included the two poems? Porphyria? s Lover? and? My Last Duchess? . In? Porphyria? s Lover? Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover, who wishes t...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Massachusetts Bay Colony
5,135 wordsChapter 1: Hester Prynne has committed adultery. Two years ago her husband in Europe sent her on ahead to America while he settled some business affairs. Alone in the small town of Boston, Hester has shocked and angered her neighbors by secretly taking a lover and bringing forth a girl child. The Puritans of Boston are shocked that she has done this thing. They are angry because she will not reveal the name of the father of the child. Although the usual penalty for adultery is death, the Puritan...
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Lover Duke
1,831 wordsMike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The 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 to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements for the...
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