Essays Tagged: "Dramatic Monologue"

The Use of Dramatic Monologue to Create Moral Dilemma in Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"

common in today's society, was also common in the Victorian Age, in Victorian poetry, in the use of dramatic monologue. Perfected by Robert Browning in the mid nineteenth century, dramatic monologue v ... tween what is actually right and what the lawyers imply to be right is the same one the reader of a dramatic monologue must make. Browning's Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of poems in which many are ...

(6 pages) 95 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Compare and Contrast Poetry by Robert Browning

he was honoured for the rest of his life as a literary figure.Robert is perhaps best known for his dramatic monologue technique. In his monologues, he spoke in the voice of an imaginary or historical ... d a fondness for people who lived during the Renaissance. Most of his monologues portray persons at dramatic moments in their lives.He is buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poet's Corner. Robert Browning ...

(14 pages) 241 0 3.9 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Analysis of Robert Brownings The Last Duchess. Provides a roughly line by line anaylsis of the poem. A good essay, needs little revision.

an writer born in 1812 and died in 1889. He is remembered today through the inspiring words of this dramatic monologue My Last Duchess.The setting of this poem is presumably in the Italian Renaissance ...

(5 pages) 183 1 4.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Analyzing of "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning, and opinions.

The poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning, is a dramatic monologue that consists of only one stanza and has a rhyme scheme of ABABB. The diction thr ...

(9 pages) 86 1 3.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Compare and contrast 'Hide and Seek' by Vernon Scannell and 'Half-past Two' by U. A. Fanthorpe

l rhyme is used to add a sense of rhythm to the poem. The poem is one continuous stanza. It is like dramatic monologue in that it creates character, but it is actually second person. The structure emp ... is isolated in a dark, begrimed place with restricted space.The poem is one continuous stanza. The dramatic monologue symbolizes the unbearable length of waiting time. The character is speaking direc ...

(11 pages) 121 0 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"My Last Duchess" By Robert Browning

Robert Browning is known as the Master of Psychological dramatic monologue. In "My last Duchess" the reader only hears the Duke's story whose perverse point ... o prove that there are double meanings in most of what the main character says.Robert Browning's dramatic monologues allow the reader a different kind of enjoyment, the pleasure of getting involved ...

(3 pages) 108 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Worksheet on Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".

This poem is called a "dramatic monologue"-as if you were listening to one half of a conversation, performed in a dramatic ...

(1 pages) 57 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"My Last Duchess": Paragon and Paregon.

f creativity with interpretation concerned Robert Browning throughout a career in which he made the dramatic monologue converge sound, silence and audition, as well as image and vision. Reading such a ... order of some artistic design. Nevertheless, as many readings of "My Last Duchess" show, "this most dramatically paragonal of all ekphrastic poems" (Heffernan 144) undermines such a simple scheme of m ...

(21 pages) 109 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess.

ury?Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842, he published 'Dramatic Lyrics' which included the two poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess'. In 'Porphyr ... poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess'. In 'Porphyria's Lover' Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover, who wishes the moment of l ...

(9 pages) 73 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Analyse the Different Forms of Power Presented in "My Last Duchess", "A Woman to Her Lover" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

ke in "My Last Duchess" desires psychological power over his DuchessThe poem "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue written by Robert Browning, coming from the Duke of Ferrara. In the poem he displ ...

(9 pages) 72 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Life of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert BrowningEnglish poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. Robert Browning was long unsuccessful as a poet and financially dependent upon h ... nd strangled her. No pain felt she;--I am quite sure she felt no pain."(From 'Porphyria's Lover' in Dramatic Lyrics, 1842)Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, south London, as the son of Robert Bro ... -known lyrics, such as How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, and PIPPA PASSES (1841), a dramatic poem depicting a silk winder and his wandering in Italy. Among his earlier works was SORDEL ...

(7 pages) 73 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

oy of a count whose daughter the Duke intends to make his next duchess.The poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue. Browning was one of the pioneers of the dramatic monologue in which a speaker's ...

(4 pages) 5799 130 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"

like to discuss one of Robert Browning's more unsettling poems, "Porphyria's Lover." The poem is a dramatic monologue of sorts, though different from Browning's most famous dramatic monologue, "My La ... sing any other living person. Of course, this makes the monologue of Porphyria's lover all the more dramatic. In keeping with the most important quality of dramatic monologues, the character of Porphy ...

(4 pages) 5007 91 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The use of the Dramatic monologue in the Last Duchess

uchess"Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue, a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one spea ... ective perspective on the what is happening in the poem. This paper will discuss how the use of the dramatic monologue makes the subject (the Duke) tell a story while, at the same time, unintentionall ...

(8 pages) 122 4 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Discuss the form and poetic qualities of "Easter Wings."

This poem appears to be a dramatic monologue, spoken by the character at a moment when he/she was approaching death. Using key ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Speaking through Caliban: The Literary Techniques of Robert Browning....an analysis of the poem Caliban Upon Setebos

s Prospero's beastly slave with a touch of charm and aspiration, making it a pioneering work. Using dramatic monologue, irregular form, and symbolism, Robert Browning addresses religious philosophy, t ... s and abuses of power.For the last 200 years, Robert Browning has often been considered a master of dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is commonly described as a poem with a speaker who is entir ...

(4 pages) 48 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

'Dramatic monologue between My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover?' - Was one mark off 100% on this one

'The art of the dramatic monologue is to create a character who reveals himself in what he has to say.' How far do y ... s deal with the themes of 'Obsessive and Possessive Love', which are displayed in contrasting ways. Dramatic Monologue will be the basis of this essay. I will attempt to see if the characters in each ... he characters in each poem "creates a character who reveals himself in what he has to say". To be a dramatic monologue, the poem must have a recognised speaker and an implicit listener. The reader usu ...

(14 pages) 82 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

My last duchess (analysis)

My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, which takes place in the Italian renaissance and the persona in this poem is Alf ...

(3 pages) 141 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Robert Browning's - Porphyria's Lover - Browning's dramatic monologue successfully captures the essence of a damaged and obsessive personality. Do you agree?

Browning's dramatic monologue does effectively capture the essence of a damaged personality through the various ...

(2 pages) 44 1 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

A comparison between phorphyria's lover and my last duches

obert Browning's poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess' were both written in the form of a dramatic monologue. Both poems show a similarity because they are both narrated from the male lover' ...

(5 pages) 71 2 3.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists