The Theme of Love in Poetry Essay -- Love Poetry Poems Robert Browning

The Theme of Love in PoetryI have chosen to compare four poesys, the first virtuoso is PorphyriasLover. It is pen by Robert Browning who died in 1889. The secondpoem, My Last Duchess, is also by Robert Browning. Browning was agreat poet in the Victorian age and married Elizabeth Barratt. The terce poem is called First Love. It is written by John Clare(1793-1864). The final poem is Ballad. It is an anonymous poem asno-one knows who wrote ballads. This is because they are word of mouthand are passed down by dint of many generations going through minorchanges severally time and therefore by the end they become a completelydifferent poem to the one in the beginning.The three poets write about the very(prenominal) theme but, as expected, have manydifferences and similarities with each other in their writingtechniques. Obviously, the two poems by Robert Browning will be verysimiliar to each other. Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess areboth written from a mans point of view . This sh ows that Browning hasused the same approach to both of the poems. Maybe he wants to make apoint of men not always being listened to and so writes both poemswith a slanted interpretation of the event.Porphyrias Lover is about a girl named Porphyria who seduces a manwho is possesive and undoubtedly insane. Some of the techniques included in Porphyrias Lover are Pathetic Fallacy, endstopped lines, personification,metaphors and en jambement. The poem begins using pathetic fallacy(the weather and atmosphere outside reflect the girls sprightlinessings) andpersonification of the wind, The sullen wind was soon awake, to setthe scene.Straight away we feel edgy around this man because he says, Ilistened with heart fit to ... ...ou are in one of thecharacters positions and that you understand exactly how they feel. En jambement gives a sense of disorder. It becomes alike regular if only endstopped lines are used in the poem although it does control difficultexplanations.The obvious differe nce between all the poems, is the structure andregular euphony and rhyme patterns. Porphyrias Lover is constructed using alternate rhyming lines with roughly eight syllables to each line whereas My Last Duchess is written in rhyming couplets with tensyllables to each line. As these patterns are even, they create asense of balance and control within the poem, especially if the lines are endstopped. If on the otherhand, there is en jambement present, the poem is hush effective and probably even more so because it adds abit of life and irregularity instead of the constant even beat.