Works And Influences of Robert Browning
The Works and Influence of Robert Browning,With Special Contributes to "My Last Duchess" [1847] Browning heavily influenced poetic society for all time. He invented the dramatic monologue, a poem with a speaker and an implied auditor where there is a gap between what the speaker says and what he actually reveals (Landow 1). He also created the silent listener technique, where the implied listener in the poem never speaks. He mastered and left behind poetic devices, such as irony, that modern poets of today still use. In the poem "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning makes use of dramatic monologue, silent listener techniques, and irony to reveal one mans hypocrisy. All of these devices made Browning the poet that society will long remember. Robert Browning was one of the most recognized and respected poets of his time. The Victorian period that he lived in and his upbringing made him the dramatic and intelligent poet that he was. His most famous types of poetry were his lyrical and romantic poems. Browning influenced poetic society with his dramatic monologues, long poems, and silent listener techniques. He can be compared to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson, other literary figures of the time.
However, when the Duke opened the curtain, he only allowed a glance. We enter into the poem by its most striking feature, which is the way the duke so directly addresses us, or so it seems. This is where his hypocrisy comes into play. His two most prominent of these poems, "The Dance of Death," and, "The First Born of Egypt," reflect his influences from other poetry of the time and his adolescent emotions (Everett 12-13). The irony of this story is not found with ease. " At first one may think that the Duke is looking at a picture of his deceased wife on the wall and mourning her beauty and how he will never love again. This is part of the irony in that he was trying to cover up his jealousy. Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Along with dramatic monologue and silent listener techniques, Robert Browning used irony to convey messages to his audience. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc, 1970. Upon my first reading of the poem I was slightly disoriented, by the direct address.
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