Explain how the theme of rejection is portrayed in 3 poems

There is a particular savouring moment when they, ‘grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste, Pound at thy powder…’ and ‘brand, burn up, bite…’. Aggression and hatred are key relationships, which are skilfully articulated throughout both poems as their source of revenge, to mask their rejection from either society or her fiancé. He uses empowering language to acquire his wishes and desires – like a spoilt juvenile. This is because ‘Miss Havisham’ employs a form of self-isolation. ‘The Laboratory’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both pre-1914 poems that conform to the verse format and the dramatic monologue conventions. She disenfranchises herself from society. This kind of adamant, shocking imagery creates a haunting lasting effect of explicit, unwarranted violence. Their structure reinforces the fatal images of rejection, by emphasising the idea that it is a long procedure, which entails many long demanding stages to overcome. He has built up so much tension, frustration and anger on how he hates his life that he eventually had to take it out on someone. ‘Hitcher’ is yet another dramatic monologue, in which a man confesses to murder, having feigned illness numerous times, he was threatened that if he gave ‘one more sick-note’, he’d be ‘finished. This is certainly exercised in ‘The Laboratory’, but I feel that in ‘Havisham’, the woman is not very actively successful in ensuring the cause of her pain was penalised. This is because they define the time period the poem is established in and also they are visual aids for the reader to fully understand the context of the poem and to get a feel for the lingo. ’ He became paranoid; he did not want his adventurous and uncultivated wife to ruin his allegedly excellent reputation, his heritage and prestige.

The brutality in ‘Hitcher’ could perhaps be compared to ‘Havisham’, as they are both contemporary poems, with bitterness and venom threaded throughout the poems, which undertake a psychotic resonance, produced by detachment, abandonment, isolation and most importantly rejection.