My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover
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It is witnessed that canonical artists similar to the likes of Robert Browning, interpret views and perceptions through literature in a timeless sense transcending them into the now modern context even surpassing the effects of the ever progressing time. However, upon review, one can notice that its inferred meaning has indeed been exposed to influence and subsequently change as a result of the developing social judgement. In proposing this, morals and values that have been practised and held by societies, as well as the presented culture and surroundings shape the composer, leading to his/her style and purpose of creating works. Also stemming from the environment from which a piece of text is produced, composers develop conventions of certain genres shaping them to address/conform to certain economical, geopolitical, social, historical, cultural and geographical contexts. The poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover both being composed by Robert Browning, give prospect to his Victorian and Italian Renaissance context through his presented values and ideas.
My Last duchess and Porphyria’s Lover both take on the form of dramatic monologues superimposed on the fundamentals of poetry. It was written in the 19th century where society held common Victorian beliefs and customs; this was also a particular era which somewhat resurrected elements from the past, one of which reflected the Renaissance period. In brief, at this moment in time society experienced both a societal and intellectual upheaval, it also was an occasion of self-indulgence in materialism especially in the form of possessions, not to mention a period of history which was sexually conservative to the point where such topics were considered as subjects of scandalous taboo. Through these deductions one can assume the persona of the general audience at the time to which these poems targeted and so subsequently through context one can better understand the poem, further discovering its intended meaning....
My Last duchess and Porphyria’s Lover both take on the form of dramatic monologues superimposed on the fundamentals of poetry. It was written in the 19th century where society held common Victorian beliefs and customs; this was also a particular era which somewhat resurrected elements from the past, one of which reflected the Renaissance period. In brief, at this moment in time society experienced both a societal and intellectual upheaval, it also was an occasion of self-indulgence in materialism especially in the form of possessions, not to mention a period of history which was sexually conservative to the point where such topics were considered as subjects of scandalous taboo. Through these deductions one can assume the persona of the general audience at the time to which these poems targeted and so subsequently through context one can better understand the poem, further discovering its intended meaning....