Poetry Analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" While reading "Porphyria's Lover" the main idea that stood out most in the poem was love. ... Robert Browning uses elements of poetry such as the speaker, rhyme scheme, and rhythm to accentuate the theme in the poem. ... The theme of love appears to be simple, but is actually complex in Browning's poem. ... Browning chooses the poem "Porphyria's Lover" to express feelings of love and its effects on those in love. The elements of poetry chosen by Robert Browning ingeniously tie together to draw attention ...

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Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning analysis The poem, Porphyria's Lover by the English poet Robert Browning, is a dramatic monologue spoken in first person by a male lover that is obsessed with his lady, Porphyria. ... And give herself to me forever Line 25 Robert Browning was born in 1812 in Camberwell, South London. ... Quite a few of Robert Browning's poems are about women. ... People in general, tend to expect poetry to be romantic and full of elaborate detail, this is not how Browning writes, therefore, making it one of his best qualities in his poems. ... (S...

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An analysis of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, which takes place in the Italian renaissance and the persona in this poem is Alfonso II, duke of Ferrera. ... The poem is written in iambic pentameter in order to imitate natural speech so that the poet is not confused with the persona. Browning's intention to imitate natural speech could be to distance himself from the duke. ... Throughout the entire poem we are able to discover the duke's character by listening to his revelations about his last wife. ... The fact that Browning lo...

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Analysis of "My Last Duchess- In the story "My Last Duchess- the Duke talks about his deceased wife. ... Robert Browning, the author, uses foreshadowing, style, structure, and point of view to enforce the plot about a murder. ... Browning has a unique use of style and structure that makes the poem more involving. ... Browning's use of story elements has a very attention-grabbing effect on the poem. The poem is very involved. ...

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Through his characters in both the poems "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess", Robert Browning incorporates, vivid and violent imagery that reveal his sexual and social views of women. Through a comparative analysis of each work, it is obvious that Browning relies on strong dramatic structure and the use of poetic devices to reinforce his opinions. ... Each of these poems serve as a window into the complex mind of Robert Browning; although often described as distasteful, his powerful writing style requires a higher understanding of his intent. ... Robert Browning's characters a...

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An analysis of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, which takes place in the Italian renaissance and the persona in this poem is Alfonso II, duke of Ferrera. ... The poem is written in iambic pentameter in order to imitate natural speech so that the poet is not confused with the persona. Browning's intention to imitate natural speech could be to distance himself from the duke. ... Throughout the entire poem we are able to discover the duke's character by listening to his revelations about his last wife. ... The fact that Browning lo...

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Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" has a Romeo and Juliet feel to it. ... The poet expresses her love for her husband, Robert Browning, who is also a poet who wrote "Meeting at Night. ... " (l.5-6) Browning is saying she loves him whether it is day or night. ... She has no limits or boundaries to the love she has for Robert that they must fight to keep their love alive. ... " is more dramatic and gets to the point than the poems of Browning and Bradstreet, which have a more fairytale type of love. ...

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The Demented Mind of Porphyria's Lover Audience: Person's interested in learning more about Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover." ... Proposal: I will tell you my interpretation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover." ... In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" the speaker of the poem kills his lover. ... The speaker of this poem views Porphyria as somebody who can make everything okay. ... The speaker of this poem is truly demented because of his ideals on love and life. ...

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Only the blind man, Robert, seems able to form lasting human connections. ... Then Robert places his hand on the hand of the narrator that holds the pen. ... Finally, Robert tells the narrator to close his eyes, and continue to draw. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... No longer hostile to Robert, no longer aware of Robert's blindness, the narrator experiences the possibility of change in his life. ...

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He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion ...

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Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. ... This colloquial tone gives a sense of immediacy to the poems. ... However, note that the tone changes throughout many of his poems. ... He challenges stale, conventional poses, such as the literary posturing of courtly love poets by offering more realistic visions of the relationship between men and women and by applying ingenous scholastic subtleties to the analysis of the emotions of lovers. ... The poems are entertainingly coarse and deliberately iconoclastic. ...

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