Robert browning essays

In the poem “Caliban upon Setebos,” Robert Browning explores the relationship between deities and their subjects through the voice of Caliban, a brutish... “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a Victorian poem that demonstrates the power of voice.

Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” has conflicting interpretations that include : unrequited love, doomed love, passion, opportunism, sacrifice, betrayal and murder. “Porphyria’s Lover” exemplifies the concept of undecidability due to the focus...

Much of Robert Browning’s poetry establishes voice through his use of a narrator within the poem, as in the case of Porphyria’s Lover, and through use of dramatic monologue, such as in The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church and Fra... In the Victorian era, women were deprived of rights and stripped of their sexuality.

The dramatic monologue form used by both Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold in their poems My Last Duchess and The Forsaken Merman, respectively, serves to comment upon the condition of a woman without physically introducing a female into the... The idea of desire is represented in several different forms in the poetry of Robert Browning.