The short poem, “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is one of his finest works that portrays the motions of love and hate, as well as passion and control. The thrilling love story is about a man who is greatly obsessed with his lover named Porphyria and all he really wants his to keep her all to himself. But the only way he feels he can keep her is by killing her. Browning’s poem shows the theme of love, social classes,...
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Studying Poetry and Drama Section 1) Robert Browning, Extract from ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’ Section 2) ‘What’s it going to do to him working for a woman?’ (Top Girls). Analyse the presentation of patriarchal authority andor challenges to patriarchal authority in texts studied on the module. 1. Robert Browning, Extract from ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’ ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’ by Robert Browning focuses on the deep-seated fears and lack of faith one of the church leaders has....
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Will the war on masculinity only fire back? The problem with the term toxic masculinity by Jacinta Petrohilos Toxic masculinity has become a very over used term in modern day society, the application of the term “toxic” traits target things such as aggression and sexist behaviours but we only ever associate these terms with males. We are now in the era where masculinity is raised to praise what is wrong with men and to address how to change them. But...
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Imagine a girl who is prettier, smarter, and more charming than you. She can talk to other people easily, be the favourite child, and is even more feminine than you. Arrgh! Isn’t it irritating? Don’t you want to push them, strangle them, or even kill them? Whoa, that elevated quickly, didn’t it? Without even knowing ourselves, jealousy can steer us into taking immoral decisions, just so we can satisfy our own insecurities. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he...
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My Last Duchess” is a poem written by Robert Browning from the point of view of Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara during the 16th century. His speech is very formal, using a very strict rhyme scheme and rhythm to establish couplets. This shows that the Duke appreciates control, and applies effort to control his statements. The sentence structure of the poem contradicts its rhyme scheme; the lines are paired as rhythmic couplets or rhymed couplets, but the couplets are 'open'...
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Powerful individuals who commit evil acts do not regard their actions or themselves as evil. Evil should be employed to qualify acts of persons rather than their character. This distinct change would allow individuals to abstain from the foundational interpretation of evil and, hence, analyse the evil acts in their contexts and effectively distinguish their inherent characteristics and motivation. ‘The Prince’ by Niccolò Machiavelli promotes the incentive of evil only when deemed necessary for the state’s preservation and glorification. This...
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Dramatic poetry was introduced in English Literature through the dream debates of Chaucer, The Owl and the Nightingale, and the ‘Metaphysical’ poems of John Donne and Andrew Marvell but it reached the height of its perfection in the Victorian age. Robert Browning was an English poet whose dramatic monologues made him a pioneering figure amongst the Victorian poets. His poems are widely acclaimed for their finesse in dealing with irony, dark humor, characterization, historical setting, and issues of social commentary....
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Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright, well-known for his dramatic monologues is one of the foremost Victorian poets, whose poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. “In 1846, he married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett, and went to live in Italy. By the time of her death, in 1861,he had published the crucial collection Men and Women,” one of which is The Last Ride Together, published in 1855,...
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In essence, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is a controversial poem by renowned Victorian-era Romantic-style poet Robert Browning, published in 1836. Being a dramatic monologue, it creates the persona of an unreliable narrator. Also a social criticism, it censures the blatant discrimination of women. Written for an audience which promoted a distinct patriarchy and deemed women inferior, women were expected to be obedient, employed exclusively in the domestic sphere, and fundamentally, property of husbands who expected them to be young and virgo intacta....
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This essay attempts to highlight the symbolic theme of anti-tyranny in Robert Browning’s selective poems by using symbols. This study sheds light on studying symbols as Browning’s indirect way of criticizing the Victorian Age by linking the meaning of the symbol to linguistics. This study clarifies that Browning, as being religious, patriot and human, is discontented with the material Victorian community that seems, externally, prosperous, but conceals, internally, the brutal visage of despotism, materialism, and tyranny. Browning selects his personas...
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