Category: My Last Duchess

In the world of poetry, John Keats and Robert Browning have remarkable contributions through their work. Though they belong to different literary era and have variety in their beliefs, writings, both of them have flourished the English literature with their individuality. In addition, Ode and My last are remarkable works of the respective poets, which…

Robert browning was an English poet that wrote many poems which were known for their irony, characterisation and historical settings. Robert Brownings illustrates distinctive ideas through his characters of the dangers of socially acceptable behaviours of the Victorian era. He depicts his characters as psychotic, self-centred, yet madly in love to express the morals towards…

Poets, during the 19th century, emphasized passion and emotion in their poetry based on experiences that they had faced during their lifetime. The three poems in this essay will show or represent an experience that each poet had experienced. A mixture of jealousy; confliction; and regret, the poems My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, O…

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…

In the poem my last duchess Browning concentrates on how humans can abuse their power. In the poem, The Duke is annoyed because he feels his wife was two easily impressed and that her looks went everywhere,. throughout the poem Browning implies that the Duke couldn’t stand the way the Duchess treated him the same…

In the Victorian age women are fully helpless. They depend on men for their social security, sex and marriage. That’s why marriage is the most significant point in a woman’s life at this age. And women were dominated by their sexuality and were expected to fall silently into the social mold that was crafted by…