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ROBERT BROWNING - POETRY (MY LAST DUCHESS (dramatic monologue, irony is…
ROBERT BROWNING - POETRY
MY LAST DUCHESS
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irony is important - what appears to be about the physical portrait of the duchess is actually about the dark hidden portrait of the Duke
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Enjambment = flows of conversation with emissary - premeditated lie/cover up/justification of his late wife's death - doesn't stop talking - doesn't care for others opinions - self - obsessed
compromises the rhyming pentameter lines - the do not create a sense of closure but instead a driving force for the Duke's compulsive revelations
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DE GUSTIBUS
speaker = browning - the listener = potentially browning's wife as she preferred their life in england
De gustibus = in matter of taste, there can be no disputes
lyric poem - extols his love for italy - contrasts with HTFA about english lanes with the mountains of italy
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THE LOST LEADER
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Anaphora - just an handful of silver.... just for a riband - one task more... one more devils' triumph... one wrong more - to emphasise their frustrated anger of betrayal - confusion as to why
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MAN & PAM
clandestine nature -secrecy, mystery and passion especially cause it's forbidden = romanticised
rhyme scheme reflect like an image on water - reflecting on events and emotion - their love for each other reflects like a mirror image - reciprocated - different to other people relationship
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CRISTINA
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odd rhyme scheme ABCN - suggests dissonance and conflict within the speaker and whom he loves - being caught between love and regret
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justifying his anger and hurt - feels she has led him on - he feels that she is denying god's fate for them to be together - love is something spiritual and she is denying and ignoring it
PORPHYRIA'S LOVER
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regular rhythm - iambic rhythm - occasionally skips a beat - iambic symbolises a heart beat - skip a beat with strong emotion of love
rhyme scheme = ababb - rhyming couplets - suggests they're a perfect match - they both feel the same way
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unstable mind set - he seems narcissistic - he believes her death is what she wanted to keep the perfect moment
THE LABORATORY
dramatic monologue - broken in to stanzas that represent time - broken into 4 lines = quatrain - quarters of the hour
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anapestic tetrameter - the poem continues to flow - the speaker has planned this cunningly - keeps it in an ordely flow - like the speaker would like to keep her lover and the those that desire him under her order - not expected - cunning -
Contrast - 'sure to taste sweetly' - sweet in contrast with poison - juxtaposition - juxtaposition of character - female= innocent and harmless - but she is guilty and trying to kill somone