Comparing Poems 'My Last Duchess And' Porphyria's Lover

“The Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” Robert Browning was one of the best poets in the nineteenth century. Browning wrote two poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,”which are two of his many poems in his published piece called Dramatic Lyrics. In both poems the men were possessive and psychopaths. The poems characterize the men as being mentally unstable. The ladies in the poems were strong minded women. Sad to say but the men were intimidated by the women. To end the way the men felt they had to murder the women. Although the men loved them, they thought killing them would be best. Browning stereotyped these women in his poems as they were seen in the nineteenth century. Women were seen as weak, dependent,

The narrator wants to have this moment of love to never end. The narrator was terribly deranged with love for Porphyria. This makes Porphyria somewhat cautious to be with him. The narrator have a completely different aspect. The reader recognizes the narrator is deeply in love saying,
“Murmuring how she loved me-she
Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour,

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To set it struggling passion free
From pride, and vainer ties dissever,
And give herself to me forever” “Porphyria”
The two seems to be in love, but there is a difference in their social status. The narrator becomes aware that Porphyria will not be with him forever. She can not be with him because she belongs to another. As a conclusion of his awareness, he murders her. He uses her own hair. The narrator states,
“Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she” “Porphyria”
The narrator upholds his deed by

He needed her honor. He thinks everyone else has her attention but him. He only noticed her happiness in the things around her, as the quote says, “She had A heart - how shall i say? - too soon made glad, Too easily impressed: she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere” “Duchess”
The Duke describes the Duchess’s beauty and her manner of being a big flirt. She had a fun-loving quality that made the Duke a jealous man. The Duchess was just a child, so maybe that Clark 3 was the true problem. She was just a friendly young girl. The Duke talked about his annoyance with the Duchess unsuitable behavior. She persist to smile and charm other men. Her murder was a chilling, deliberate act of the Duke to despoil the root of his