Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory Essay

Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory In this essay I hope to prove that Robert Browning’s murder mystery poems are fulfilled with intrigue and excitement. I also hope to prove that in his poems he creates vivid characters and uses poetic techniques to expose a world of madness and wickedness. To show that the statements above are true I will be writing about the characters, the poetic features in each poem and the madness and wickedness in each poem. This essay will include three of Robert Browning’s poems; they are Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory. Robert Browning was born on the seventh of May in eighteen twelve in Camberwell a suburb of London. He was the first child of Robert and†¦show more content†¦The first poem I am going to look at is Porphyria’s Lover. The two characters in the poem are Porphyria and her lover. From the poem we learn that Porphyria is beautiful and sensuous, ‘glided in Porphyria’. She uses her beauty to manipulate her lover. The name Porphyria is the name of a mental illness that drives people mad and that is what she does to her lover because he loves her so much and can not be with her. She warms up her lover and makes him feel special and whole. ‘Made the cheerless grate blaze up and all the cottage warm up’. She loves and respects her lover she shows this when she kneels down to speak to him when she enters the cottage. Porphyria has already got a partner ‘vainer ties dissever’. She is richer than her lover ‘free from pride’. She is a very gentle person but at the same time she is also a reckless person, she shows this when she leaves a party early to see her lover and also the fact that she is betraying her husband. She will not leave her husband for her lover and let her true feelings out he sees it as a weakness in her. ‘To weak, for all her heart’s endeavour to set its struggling passion free’. Porphyria’s lover is the only other character in this poem. He is the opposite of Porphyria because when Porphyria arrived she was full of life and vitality whereas her lover is miserable, cheerless andShow MoreRelatedExplore the ways in which Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and Browning presents the speakers in Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and the Laboratory1596 Words   |  7 PagesExplore the ways in which Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and Browning presents the speakers in Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and the Laboratory Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in such a way that she is shown as a strong and powerful woman. Her ability to manipulate Macbeth to murder Duncan in order to get more power is a key example of this aspect of her character. Browning also presents his speakers in a similar way to Shakespeare through their need to control. The main way that bothRead More The Dramatic Monologues of Robert Browning Essay2233 Words   |  9 Pagescelebrated Victorian poet. In some of his finest works people from the past speak their thoughts and reveal their lives to the reader through the †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦? The poems I will be taking into account will be: ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ from Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 ‘The Laboratory’, 1844 ‘My last Duchess’, from Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 ‘Andrea del Sarto’ from Men and Women, 1855 ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ from Men and Women, 1855 All these poems are presented from the viewpoint of an individual explainingRead MoreCompare and Contrast How the Main Protagonists Experience Being Outsiders Within Their Respective Societies.2198 Words   |  9 Pagesalienation through a character considered an outsider by the society in which he lives in. Similarly Emily Bronte explores Heathcliff and the obstacles he faces at Wuthering Heights. Browning’s Dramatic Monologues illustrate the minds of psychotic lovers who are all possessive and delusional. In all the three texts the outsiders are rejected and are to an extent responsible for their own position in the society. While some are underprivileged others deprive and almost punish themselves for not being