Essay Comparing To My Last Duchess And Anne Bradstreet

I think that the love by Anne Bradstreet is different from the love showed by John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor.The first major reason I believe this is because Anne would do anything to be with her husband, while Elizabeth and John were fairly unfaithful to each other. For example Anne said that she wouldn't trade her husband for anything not even a mountain of gold, while Elizabeth and John both confessed as being unfaithful. This detail easily supports my thought that their love is different cause it shows how much more Anne Bradstreet cares. Another big reason is that Anne says they won't live forever but they will live ever, which is her saying they will always be together. A detail is that Anne says the heavens reward the manifold which

In both poems there is the recurrent theme of irony. In “To His Coy Mistress” the poem’s entire first section is ironic in the sense that the speaker knows he isn’t being genuine. The speaker uses words to his advantage and we can take little of what he says to be truthful. In Line 1, “Had we but world enough, and time”. The first section of the poem is a series of hyperbolic statements meant to impress and flatter the reader but the

Throughout all history the way people view God as to be kind. However in older times some people portrayed him to be different. Anne bradstreet viewed him like we would today, but Edwards views him to be quite revengeful. Bradstreet and Edwards are similar in many ways, but they have some major differences. They both have similar styles and personalities, but their image of God sets them apart in some ways.

women are still fighting for equality every day. In the time of Anne Bradstreet, women had few

“My Last Duchess” also written by Robert Browning is similar to “The Laboratory” as both are written in the form of dramatic monologues. “My Last Duchess” tells the story of a Duke who is arranging with a servant plans to gain the hand of a count’s daughter in marriage. The Duke takes the servant upstairs into his private quarters and shows him several possessions the first of which is a portrait of his "last" duchess. The Duke keeps this portrait hidden behind a curtain that only he may draw. The Duchess was apparently easily pleased: she smiled at everything, and seemed equally as impressed when given a branch of cherries as when the Duke married her.

The Victorian era is known to be one of the most structured, socially moral, and stiffening hierarchal period of modern times. Often obsessing over the values of family hierarchy, monogamy, strict class structures, and chaste moral standards, the moral standards, especially towards the celibacy and role of women, of the Victorian era were often heavily criticized by many poets and authors. One such poet who debates and denounces the stringent standards towards women in the Victorian era is poet Robert Browning, who writes about the previous in two separate poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. “My Last Duchess” concerns the dramatic monologue of a widowed duke who critiques his late duchess whilst negotiating with a servant for

the personality of his duchess, he is shown to be a heartless, arrogant man. His complete

Out of all of the stories and poems in the history of the world, many of them will have similarities and differences. Merriman conveys, “If human life were not limited by space and time, the beloved’s coyness would not harm the lover and the beloved. They would sit and plan how to pass their long time.” The poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell is all about a man trying to convince a woman to do something she doesn’t really want to do. The poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick is about a man talking to many woman not to die without living. In the poems “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick there are many comparison to be made.

(Compare and Contrast Between the Poems To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick)

“My Last Duchess”, by Robert Browning, is narrated through dramatic monologue from the perspective of the nonchalant Duke. Through his narration, the reader develops a wanton view of the Duchess, and a sense of superiority that the Duke bestows upon himself. The Duke, consumed by his own superior ego, illustrates the statue of Neptune and the seahorse, and this becomes the most memorable part of the poem. Within the final lines of “My Last Duchess”, the Duke makes note of his statue of Neptune taming a wild seahorse, and how it is cast in bronze.

Browning composes his work through the use of the form, dramatic monologues. This helps to portray the psychotic mindset of the character to notify the reader and expand their knowledge. In addition, this enables Browning to capture the deluded aspect of the character. Robert Browning unveils his work through one long stanza; this is signified in My Last Duchess, where it illustrates the Duke’s potency and sense of mightiness. Furthermore, this demonstrates how much of a self-absorbed, narcisstic imbecile the Duke is to give the reader the characters attributes.

In the poem by Robert Browning “The Last Duchess” One theme is quite clear, Jealousy. The poem is viewed from the Duke’s perspective. The Duke is telling a young woman of his last wife and how she was a complete flirt. This made the Duke truly angry and jealous and eventually he had her killed. A perfect example of the anger and jealousy the duke felt is in the line “Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, —E’en then would be some stooping;” Browning uses Enjambment, a french word meaning to move over from one line to another without punctuation. Browning uses this to show how angry the Duke is, he can’t control himself. Another literary device that

I compared and contrasted the attitudes the women give toward the speaker in the poems “To His Coy Mistress” and “My Last Duchess.” I was able to do this by using elements like speaker, figurative language, and tone. To show how the poets reveal the attitudes that the women give off. In the poems “My Last Duchess” and “To His Coy Mistress” the speaker expresses throughout their poem that they exclusively only want to use women for pleasure and convenience. This was inferred based on their tone and figurative language used in the poem. The speaker's used a different and unusual tone and style in order to get their message about women across to us.

When the settlers from came to the colonies in America, they all faced trials and challenges that caused various emotions from joy to anger, sorrow, or even fear. Just as anyone would, the settlers found their own ways to cope and express their feelings about living in the colonies. In the cases of Anne Bradstreet and William Bradford, writing literature was the best outlet. Through their writing, these two authors found an outlet for their New World struggles while still allowing their individuality to come out in their work.

The two literary works by Browning, and Chopin both suggest ideas about gender and power. Each author expresses their ideas in a different way, but each literary work eventually suggests that women lack power when opposed to the opposite gender. This is evident in Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess, and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”. In fact, in “My Last Duchess” there appeared many instances where there was clearly a lack of power for women.