Summary Of Porphyrias Lover And My Last Duchess - 1001 Words

Visa Versa (An analysis of the similarities and differences of Last and Lover by Robert Browning) Robert Browning is the great poet of dramatic monologues. A dramatic monologue is described as narrator revealing characteristics about himself, while still explaining a particular series of events. Robert Browning was slow to make himself a name, but once he realized his capabilities in the literature world his career took off. Biographer, Richard Black explained, â€Å"Widely regarded for his knowledge and his explorations of philosophical questions of great resonance in Victorian life.† Browning writes extremely controversial poems that question his morals and the morals of the those around. In the poems, Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess,†¦show more content†¦Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are alike and different in the reasoning behind why the women were killed. Both women were murdered but for two completely different reasons. In My Last Duchess Browning explains, â €Å"cause enough For calling up to that spot of joy. She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad,† (lines 20-22). The reasoning behind this women being killed is that she smiled too much at other men. She was too easily made happy and that made the narrator jealous. This jealousy sparked hatred for a woman he once loved. Therapist, Kim Olver explains, â€Å"One form of jealousy come from believing your partner belongs to you.† This is the main way these two poems are different. Porphyria’s Lover did not murder because of jealousy, but because that is what he thought she wanted. The thought that the woman would only want him, devote the rest of her life to him and loved him endlessly led him to make the decision to kill her. An extreme action such as this would take take and extreme motive, but all the narrator wanted was to be able to spend the rest of his and her life with each other. Jealousy also has a small part in that. Not wanting anyone else t o be able to have to woman shows that he gets jealous easily. Porphyria’s Lover and My Last DuchessShow MoreRelatedLiterary Tendency of Victorian Literature: Special Reference to Lord Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning3101 Words   |  13 Pagespoet himself believed. Accustomed to taking it for granted that the first-person speaker was either the poet or his idealized persona, audiences did not know what to do when they encountered the homicidal maniac of Porphyrias Lover and the even more terrifying Duke in My Last Duchess. Its as hard to over-estimate the importance of this point as it is even to realize it after so many years of teaching Browning in secondary schools as an exercise in close reading: Early and mid-Victorian readers