Robert Browning rested during the Victorian age, such an age where love co-shadowed with confusion, religion and unrest. To the extent, Robert Browning is a poet of enthusiasm and love. Browning’s works portray the various thoughts of emotion, whether it is the simplicity of the spiritual love or the complexity of the thoughts and nature of love in Porphyria’s lover and in My Last Duchess.
To portray a comparison between Porphyria’s lover and My Last Duchess it is important to perceive the common thoughts between both of these poems. Firstly both of the poems are forms of dramatic monologues, in which the two lovers express their tale of love and that of agony.
Porphyria’s lover is a poem of abnormal love. In this poem, Porphyria’s lover rests in a cottage by the countryside. His lover, blooming young women named Porphyria proceeds out of the storms. That stormy the porphyria arrives. She tells him that she overcomes the social pressure of being a part of his live or even to be with him. The lover without any thoughts comprehends that’s Porphyria will surely gift that social pressure one day. To preserve the beauties love, the lover strangles Porphyria with her own hair, the sight of golden locks.
When in My Last Duchess, The lover who himself is a duke looks at a painting of his one and only his Last Duchess portrayed by sir Fra Pandolf. The duke rides off, back to the past and speaks about
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In both the poems he suggests death as the best way to preserve love and chastity. However he does not necessarily obey it. These two lovers of Browning are very different yet so close. Browning has not dealt with jealousy and love in any of his works so strongly. Browning however gives a hint at possessing love as the same towards jealousy. He however never proves or even strongly suggests that death is the only way to preserve love, as both of the lovers are in certain indulgence of trouble and