My essay on poems

Blog Essay
The two poems I will be comparing are about love. These two poems will be Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. These two poems are both written by the same author Robert Browning. The two poems are both considered a Dramatic monologue because it includes a listener and speaker as well. These stories are both told or spoken by males about their woman. The similarities of these two poems are a man and woman are involved, in both something has happened to the woman, and in both poems the woman symbolizes possession. The major difference is that in one there is a death and in one there is murder. These men each talk about physical appearances as they look at their woman and both thought that they should only be for them. These men seem to have the same personal issues such as: jealousy, selfish, self esteem, and some insecurity. The poems imagery is different as they are in different places with different things happening at that time. In Porphyria’s lover, “The rain set early in to-night.” (Browning 719) In My Last Duchess, “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall.” (Browning 702) Christina Montag