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A 4 page paper which examines the use of dramatic monologue in “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” both by Robert Browning. No additional sources cited.
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monologue. The dramatic monologue is a form of poetry wherein the narrator, not the poet himself, is divulging some very important information to a listener. It is a way of
writing, or speaking, that conveys subtle information about the narrator, giving the reader an understanding of their strengths and in Brownings case, more often than not, their weaknesses. Interestingly enough,
the narrator is unaware that they are providing such subtle information for they are lost in their own world, a world of drama. The following paper examines the successful aspects
of Brownings use of dramatic monologue in two of his poems: "Porhyrias Lover" and "My Last Duchess." Porphyrias Lover This poem is presented by a narrator whose lover,
Porphyria, has just come in from the rain and is demonstrating her love for the narrator. He is silent and never utters a word. He observes her and in these
observations we learn a great deal about the narrator. For example, in the first three lines we sense the narrators mood which is sullen and relatively unemotional: "The rain set
early in tonight,/ The sullen wind was soon awake,/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite" (Browning 1-3). In this we do not get any sense that the narrator is
angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence of nature. The poem progresses with the
narrator dully informing us about how she moved and sat by him and proclaimed her love for him. There is no emotion in the presentation of these events and these
claims until suddenly we see how he comes to the true realization that she truly does love him and the power and reality of that is so intense that the
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