Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of
love in them
Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of
love in them. But they are not all the same theme of love for example
Porphyrias Lover is obsessive and seductive love whereas; The Flea is
more like sexual love. Robert Browning writes both Porphyrias Lover
and My Last Duchess and John Donne writes The Flea. I think
Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are alike as Robert Browning uses
similar themes of love in them e.g. Obsessive and Possessive. The
Flea is a completely different poem altogether. It is more of a
sexual poem rather than obsessive but it could be argued that it is
obsessive as well because the male is obsessed with having sex with
the lady.
Porphyrias Lover is about a man obsessing over Porphyria, who is
already with someone else, Porphyria seduces him and tells him that
she loves him- ‘She put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth
white shoulder bare and all her yellow hair displaced…. Murmuring how
she loved me’. Her lover then realises Porphyria loves him and he
debates what to do, he then thinks of something to do that will make
Porphyria his forever, ‘and all her hair in one yellow string I wound
three times her little throat around and strangled her.’ He killed
Porphyria and is happy and confident about what he has done ‘And thus
we sit together now, and all night long we have not stirred, and yet
God has not said a word!’ Porphyrias Lover is a Dramatic Monologue in
which and obsessive lover kills his mistress. Robert Browning uses
personification an pathetic fallacy to set the mood of the lover, ‘
The sullen wind was soon awake, it tore the elm- tops down for spite,
and d...
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...to be killed because she smiled at other
men, ‘ Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, whene’er I passed her, but who
passed without much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; then
all smiles stopped together.
This poem is like Porphyrias Lover because is contains possessive love
and so does Porphyrias lover. I don’t think it is like The Flea
because it has no seductive love in it at all. I think this could be
down to the fact that Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are both
written by Robert Browning and so they will be written in a certain
style of writing. The Flea however is written by John Donne and is
slightly different to both the other poems!
I enjoyed studying these types of love poetry because I thought it was
interesting how there are so many types of love. I think I have shown
that all the poems are related to each other in different ways.
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