Essays on My Last Duchess

Introduction Robert Browning, the 2nd is an English poet and playwright from the 1800’s. Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in a middle-class suburb in London. He started his early career making long poems. Browning was always inspired to write poems by his father….

Introduction Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock are monologues that are similar in presenting middle-aged, unmarried men who are suffering from insecurities. Eliot’s 20th century The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the story of…

How do My Last Duchess and La Belle Dame Sans Merci present differing views on love and relationships? Whilst ‘My Last Duchess’ is a poem showing the misogyny and megalomania which comes with absolute, total power, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ is a poem warning…

Life-like Painting “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is written as a dramatic monologue that gives the appearance as if it is being said on stage in front of an audience. It is inferred through the poem that this style was possibly chosen in order…