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
Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was an accomplished pianist and his
Father was a clerk in the Bank of England. Robert Browning was largely
self-taught. He was an extremely bright child and a voracious reader.
By the time he was fourteen he had learned Latin, Greek, French and
Italian. He attended the University of London in eighteen twenty eight
but left in discontent to pursue his reading at his own pace. In
eighteen forty six he married Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Florence,
Italy. He moved back to London in eighteen sixty one but spent his
final years with his only son back in Italy. He died in eighteen
eighty nine and is buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. He
wrote his first poem ‘Pauline’ in eighteen thirty three. Browning
wrote during the romantic era in the nineteenth century. In this era
romantic poets such as Robert Browning wrote about dramatic events in
unusual ways, using different ideas and forms. All of Browning’s poems
are dramatic monologues; he was the fir...
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... the poison to be attractive so when it is horrible it is more of a
shock.
‘The colour’s too grim. Why not soft phial’s, enticing, dim? Let it
brighten her drink, let her turn it and stir, and try it and taste,
ere she fix and prefer’.
She also shows her wickedness again in the fact that she wants her
lover’s mistress to die in pain with him watching her die.
I enjoyed all three of the poems but I especially liked reading and
studying The Laboratory because I thought it was interesting the way
someone could have such a cold attitude to killing someone and
actually be eager to do so. All three poems were written as dramatic
monologues and they were all about a lover or husband killing their
lover or wife because of stupid reasons. I enjoyed the way the poem
was written because you felt like you were actually there and they
were speaking to you.
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