Compare And Contrast My Last Duchess And Porphyria's Lover
There are so many things in this world that sound very different, but mean the same thing. An example of this is a word called a synonym. There are also many things that sound the same, but means something different. By definition this is a word called a homonym. In the poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover both by Robert Browning are very different yet very alike all at the same time. One example of these poems being very similar is that they are both about a jealous guy. Both of these guys got very upset that their lady’s attention wasn’t on them constantly. Both of these men ended up killing their woman out of pure jealousy. In My Last Duchess the speaker says “Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name with anybody’s gift.”(Line 32-34) He obviously was very jealous that she was always smiling at everyone and not just him. He expected that
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In Porphyria’s Lover, the speaker states, “She too weak, for all her heart’s endeavor, to set its struggling passion free from pride, and vainer ties dissever, and give herself to me for ever.” (Line 22-25) In other words what Browning is trying to say is she has other relationships and is too proud to break off those relationships with those other men. These men got so mad, they just went off the wall and killed their girl. Although their reason behind killing their woman was basically the same, they both went about it differently. In Porphyria's Lover, he did not plan on killing her. It just kind of happened that way. The text say, “Be sure I looked up at her eyes, happy and proud; at last I knew, Porphyria worshipped me; surprise made my heart swell, and still it grew ,while I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good: I found a thing to do, and all her hair in one long
In Porphyria’s Lover, the speaker states, “She too weak, for all her heart’s endeavor, to set its struggling passion free from pride, and vainer ties dissever, and give herself to me for ever.” (Line 22-25) In other words what Browning is trying to say is she has other relationships and is too proud to break off those relationships with those other men. These men got so mad, they just went off the wall and killed their girl. Although their reason behind killing their woman was basically the same, they both went about it differently. In Porphyria's Lover, he did not plan on killing her. It just kind of happened that way. The text say, “Be sure I looked up at her eyes, happy and proud; at last I knew, Porphyria worshipped me; surprise made my heart swell, and still it grew ,while I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good: I found a thing to do, and all her hair in one long