What Is The Similarities Between My Last Duchess And Alfred Lord Tennyson

When one travels, it is easy to observe differences in social norms from country to country. One may also observe differences within a country, for example, the social norms of a small town or village versus those of a large metropolis. Differences in social norms can also be observed in literature. This essay will focus on two dramatic monologues, which were written by poets who lived in England during the same period. Robert Browning published My last Duchess in 1842, the same year that Alfred Tennyson published Ulysses. Both poets lived in England during the Victorian era. However, by examining characters from their poetry, namely Alfonso in My Last Duchess and Odysseus in Ulysses, we can see that they express opposite norms concerning

In Robert Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess,” the author writes of a Duke who seems to admit to murdering his last duchess. The poem starts with the Duke introducing the painting of his last duchess to an emissary. He goes on to claim that she was unfaithful and believes that she was flirting with the artist of her portrait. The Duke insists that he should be the only one that has her attention. Throughout the poem, the Duke’s ego is revealed and he implies that he executed his own wife (Browning 1016-1017). “My Last Duchess” is filled with ambiguous claims which calls the reader to examine every possibility. This is difficult considering there is only one speaker, the Duke, in the poem. The three things that are discovered when a reader dives deeper into Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess”, are the dysfunction of the Duke and Duchess’ relationship, the reason for the Duke’s vanity, and the misrepresented Duchess.

‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both poems by the Victorian poet Robert Browning. In this essay I will compare these two poems to find similarities and differences.

The two works of literature, I will be connecting will be Voltaire’s Candide of the Enlightenment Era and Tennyson’s “Ulysses” of the Romantic Era. The connection I will convey will be the theme of mortality. In both works, we will see this theme being intertwined within the main idea. I will connect these two works of literature by; identifying mortality in both works of literature, using direct quotes, and giving a literary insight on how Voltaire and Tennyson used mortality to give a deeper meaning to the central idea of the work.

In this essay, I will be comparing the running theme of doubt and uncertainty between Macbeth and other poems which we have studied. There are three main characters that I will be focusing on. Firstly, Macbeth is the protagonist in the play ‘Macbeth’ written by Shakespeare. Macbeth was originally a soldier in the beginning battle – when the Norwegians attempt to invade Scotland, which shows him as patriotic and loyal to his country and king. He was also the Thane of Glamis, of Scotland, meaning that he was trusted to look after land.

Robert Browning wrote a poem about his wifes painting and how he but it makes what is being said ten times worse than just reading it. The way he says "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive." Makes the readers emotions come out and really make the reader feel how he felt when writing this poem. Robert's wording in this poem is very powerful and leave the reader in awe and really makes the reader see the pain he had felt in the time of writing this poem. "That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands." when reading this part it was hard to understand what he ment by this but after reading it twice I saw it ment that it was the past painting and she is gone so the

Essentially a monologue set within a frame, this poem creates two personae. The anonymous author gives a brief introduction and conclusion. The Wanderer, an aging warrior, who roams the world seeking shelter and aid. The Wanderer’s monologue divides into two distinct parts, the first being a lament for his exile and the loss of kin, friends, home, and the generosity of his king. In nature, he finds absolutely no comfort, for he has set sail on the winter stricken sea. Poignantly, the speaker dreams that he is among his companions, and embracing his king, only to awaken facing the gray, winter sea, and snowfall mingled with hail.

Although Browning divides the poem into 2 half’s, the format of his stanzas also help reveal the speakers traits. He uses words like “and” very repetitively throughout the monologue to help reveal his traits. She shut the cold out and the storm, and... “. The speaker uses this word very often because he is not very good at communicating. Mainly little kids would say and very often when they speak. The speaker communicates as if he were childish. He does not end with using a period as many other people would but instead he continues it by saying and which also relates to him being childish. The speaker also talks very much about porphyria throughout his stanzas and he also very descriptive about her such as the clothes she’s wearing. “Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, and laid her soiled gloves by”. This also would prove that the speaker is childish since the reason he’s telling the us her type of clothes and so on, what is he trying to gain from telling this? He may be trying to tease somebody else which would be a very childish thing to do, this also leads me to believe this since later on in the poem he mentions “mine, mine “which proves that he is very

Browning is known to write in dramatic monologue and have characters talk in unusual ways. Dramatic monologue is literally “one person’s speech”, or the audience is implied has no dialogue and there is an assumed voice (Poetsorg). For example the monk in "The Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" can be an example of any ones hatred of another, such as a "goody to shoes". Another example of Browning's characters is the Duke in the Duchess; this character displayed how jealousy can inrage an individual to go the extreme. Both characters are of how emotions can drive someone to the very edge and is assumed by the narrator.

Kaitlyn Grifka ENG 204 Alfred Tennyson wrote a beautiful poem that can easily paint a picture into the reader’s eyes. He uses imagery, elements of poetry, setting, and exceptional word choices to help portray the theme and emotion in his work. His work is a narrative poem, which means it has a sure plot, setting and characters, and it should speak from a particular point of view. Hence why I choose to write about this poem; it has stuck out to me in my mind, and it’s one that I haven’t forgotten about.

Therefore, in order to understand the inspiration of Tennyson, it is necessary to understand his life.  Lord Alfred Tennyson was born on August, 6th, 1806 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom just before the start of Victorianism. An era he would later become a memorable writer of. Tennyson was born into a financially unstable family of fourteen. Mental illnesses and epilepsy was common amongst the males of his family and would haunt him for the rest of his life. He often admitted himself into mental institutions over the course of his life out of fear that he had acquired the disease his father and brother had. Eventually, Tennyson went to Trinity College where he pursued poetry. The leader of the poetry group at the college,  Arthur Hallam, quickly befriended the shy poet and soon became his closest companion often encouraging Tennyson to write.  A few years later, the death of both of his father and shockingly Hallam shocked Tennyson into grief that,”lead to most of his best poetry” ( Everett, Glenn) he had ever written.  His poem Ulysses, was written in memory of the passing of his friend, “...Life piled on life/ Were all too little, and of one to me/Little remains.../From that eternal silence,” in regret that his life had ended too young. Death and the passing of time would soon become a major thematic scheme of his writing’s for the rest of his

The poem that we are going to analyze in this paper is section XI from the poem In Memoriam, which was written in 1850 by Alfred Tennyson.

A person’s traits can be highly influenced by good and bad experiences, or by what they have faced, throughout their life. In the poem “Ulysses” written by Alfred L. Tennyson, the main character Ulysses is a great epitome of how a person’s past experiences influenced their traits. He expresses many traits throughout the poem which are perceived as, restlessness, resentfulness, and hopefulness. In this poem Ulysses goes back to living his normal life, after going to war and having epic adventures, as a king once again. He must find a way to go back to his previous way of living, after what he had lived through. This essay will show how the three major traits were expressed, during “Ulysses” by the main character Ulysses.

This transfer of the power of voice plays out similarly within Waddington’s diction choices as pitched against those of Tennyson. While Tennyson brings to great detail the admirable bravado and intimate victories of Ulysses’ journeys, the same marvels are expressed differently through Waddington’s perspective. These events are mentioned, but by listing in passing, not in Ulysses’ terms of conquest and action. While Ulysses takes the place of a passive character and only performs an action in his coming home and “climbing the stairs,” Penelope fills the seat of the active rescuer and change-maker (25). She truly has a chance to describe him like Tennyson’s speaker offhandedly refers to her and to do so in new terms. Thus it is within Waddington’s diction choices about the actions of Penelope, not Ulysses, that her stanzas most reflect the gallant rhetoric akin to Tennyson’s work. From when “her stitches embroider the painful colors of her breath,” to her creation of Ulysses as “a medallion emblazoned in tapestry,” Penelope’s labors in the creation and retelling of her husband constitute the most powerful language in the work (Waddington 37-40, 30-32). Here, the facade of her “blind hands” falls away to reveal the true potency of Penelope’s situation as creator and overseer.

The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in the town of Somersby in Lincolnshire in 1809 and died in 1892. His early life was not a pleasant one. Some would conclude that ?The early experience was not for Tennyson a single one, it was a snarled web of family feud, bitterness, genteel poverty, drunkenness, madness, and violence.? All together, ?The cry from out the drowning of his life, the mother weeping: