Topic Proposal "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess"

The poems; "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess" were both written by Robert Browning. These two poems are interesting and could be used for the Poetry essay with the subject of; the twisted underlying motives behind the supposed theme of love. Both of these poems use the term understatement, as well as the use of dramatic monologue, and situational irony. Also, when reading these two poems, as a reader, you have to see the strange way Browning displays the twistedness of the speakers. He sets up the tone as a real subtle melodramatic type tone, to then use (for the most part) the similarly subtle tone to show the ugliness and perverse nature of the two main characters in the poems. Although, a difference being that in "My Last Duchess" the tone seems to get more enraged and is less sublte than "Porphyria's Lover".