Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Anne Hathaway’ is about Anne Hathaway’s and Shakespeare’s love for each other and how great it is. Whereas is Robert Browning’s poem ‘The laboratory’ is about a woman who poisons the woman her lover’s sleeping with.
In ‘Anne Hathaway’s’ first lines the voice seems dreamy and passionate. Whereas, in ‘The laboratory’s’ the voice seems evil, keen and excited. ‘The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, cliff tops, seas where we could dive for pearls.’ Using the world ‘loved’ instead of ‘slept’ creates connotations of passion, love and as if their love was above everyone else’s. Also, when she writes ‘spinning world’ it gives connotations of excitement and as if their relationship was a whirl word but fun. Finally, the list of places written down don’t only create a sense of adventure but they are places all used in Shakespeare’s plays which makes you think the she was really interested in him and what he did.
‘Now that I tying this glass mask tightly, May gaze thro’ these faint smokes curling whitely, as thou pliest trade in this devil’s smithy- Which is the poison to poison her prithee?’ Unlike in ‘Anne Hathaway’ the first lines of ‘The Laboratory’ create an evil, keen and excited voice. When he writes ‘Which is the poison to poison her prithee?’ it makes you think it would be said in a fast pace because of the three P’s. Also, it sounds a bit like a chant which creates excitement. Finally, because she is asking questions to the Chemist it makes you think she’s eager and interested in the poison, unlike in ‘Anne Hathaway’ where she’s only interested in where Shakespeare is and what he does.
In ‘Anne Hathaway’ the voice of the poem seems as if Anne Hathaway was deeply in love...
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...f violence to portray the murderer as violent and crazy. When he writes ‘Brand, Burn up and bite.’ It makes you think she would say it in an angry, shouty tone and emphasis the B’s. Also, I think she would say this in a demanding tone and if it didn’t happen then she could get violent and angry. Very different to the loving and gentle voice in ‘Anne Hathaway’.
Overall I think that in ‘Anne Hathaway’ the voice seems more real and down to Earth because in ‘Anne Hathaway’ she is talking about the good side of love unlike in ‘The Laboratory’ where they just talk about the evil side. I think the most effective technique would be assonance because the sounds made can compare to certain things and give people those characteristics. In ‘Anne Hathaway’ I think the message was it doesn’t matter how expensive or valuable things are it’s about the memories you have with them.
Everyone has once been someone that they aren’t necessarily ashamed of, but something they aren’t anymore. When you’re in school, everyone is different; between the popular kids, the jocks, the cheerleader, the dorks, the Goths, and all the other “types” of people. In “Her Kind,” Anne Sexton shows that she has been a lot of different women, and she is not them now. In this paper we will be diving into the meanings behind the displaced “I,” the tone and reparation, and who Anne Sexton really is and how that affects what she is trying to let people see through this poem.
In contrast to Macbeth’s love for his wife, in Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ there is an absence of the romanticised emotion of love. The Duke refers to his wife as ‘My Last Duchess. Here the use of the possessive pronoun ‘my’ gives us the idea from the outset that the Duke saw his wife as merely a possession. The iambic pentameter of ten syllables per line used in the poem also emphasises possession by stressing ‘my’ further in the pattern. Browning’s portrayal of love is one that is absent of emotional attachment, but instead something by which he could possess and have power over her. It could be argued that there are similarities in the way that Lady Macbeth also uses the emotion of love. Being in the form of a dramatic monologue, use
In romantic words, the poet expresses how much she does think of love. She state it clear that she will not trade love for peace in times of anguish.
led her to neglect her son at the end of ‘I’m the king of the castle’,
...It was also a reflection of the longing she felt for Angeria as well as the anxious need to reconcile her desire to write with the necessity of continuing to teach to earn a living. The poem then breaks into retrospective and explains the incompatibility of Charlotte’s imaginative life with her actual life.(www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charlotte-bronte)
Growing up in the early 1600's was a tough time for many people, especially women. Women were very much discriminated against and made to fulfill the duties that were in the household and nothing else beyond that. Anne Bradstreet was a woman that grew up during this time as a Puritan. Puritans believed that humans could only achieve goodness if they worked hard, were self-disciplined, and constantly examining themselves to make sure that they were living their lives for God. Due to this way of looking at life, Anne Bradstreet had little time for writing her poetry. Being a mother of eight children and a devoted wife one would think that Bradstreet wasn't carrying out her duties to her family and God if she was busy writing poetry. Therefore if people knew that she was writing this poetry she would not want them to think less of her so she would write it in a happy and family oriented sense showing how devoted she was to her family through her poetry. That is why Bradstreet writes how she does in the poem To My Dear and Loving Husband. She writes as if to portray that she has a great relationship with her husband and God. Although from her other poem, Prologue, one can see that underneath she truly feels betrayed by the men in her life and by men in general.
As we can gather from the examples, Gwen Harwood uses language to create dynamic backgrounds and images to subtly delineate the changes experienced by the persona in the poems. Sometimes the characters themselves are not aware of these changes but the readers are able to appreciate them with the aid of skill Harwood posses in using language to such great measures.
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most “confessional” poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized. She was known to use images of incest, adultery, and madness to reveal the depths of her deeply troubled life, which often brought on much controversy. Despite this, Anne went on to win many awards and go down as one of the best poets of all time.
The language Lady Anne uses is appropriate for the scene which is set during the funeral procession of King Henry VI. Lady Anne mourns the deaths of King Henry VI, her father-in-law, and his son, Prince Edward. Lady Anne says to the King that she was "wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtered son" (1:2:10), although in history she was only betrothed to him. As a result, her relationship to his father, King Henry VI, is closer and her sadness is more valid. This supposed marriage also generates greater shock over her ensuing marriage to Richard III. The end-stopped lines are appropriate because they slow the speech and emphasize the dullness of one who feels pain and sorrow at the loss of a loved one. In addition, the ornate verse emphasizes the drama of her speech and the powerful emotion she exudes. The language upholds the sanctity of the King and recalls an elegy or psalm that w...
During the Puritan era, women’s role in life was extremely simple. Marriage served as a huge role in women’s lives. The women thought that marriage was a gift from God, and consequently, followed their husband’s wishes. Due to this, women were expected to be docile housewives. They were to clean house, wash laundry, watch children, and please their husband when the man arrived home after work. The women were also expected to have many children, because it was believed that children were gifts from God. While this was the normality of the time period, Anne was different. She was interested in rebelling against society’s way of thinking. She wrote poetry, not only to rebel, but to express the love for all the gifts that she believed God gave
Robert Browning was poet during the Victorian Age, his wrote about love and established this through his characters. His works explore the nature of love, as shown in “Porphria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess.” Throughout both poems, Robert Browning uses multiple literary devices to help establish the theme of the nature of love.
In conclusion, both poems are very similar on many subjects, but there are also some very strong differences. In both poems, a similar structure, rhyme scheme and meter play pivotal roles in their respective poems. In both poems, differences in the settings, the characters and the tone help us understand what message Robert Browning was trying to convey to us in his poems, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess.’
Thanks to the incredible job that Browning did on these poems, readers are now more fully able to grasp the passion and the love that this woman had for her lover. Perhaps they can even connect if they have a lover of their own whom they adore with their "breath, smiles, and tears."
A Comparison of the Dramatic Monologues of Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
4. “A few months hence, and the the room now so deserted, occupied by her silent, pensive self might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot” (108).