Title: Week III: Robert Browning

Subject: Porphyria's Lover”, “My Last Duchess”.

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<aside> 💡 Key Points:

• Main Ideas
• Key words
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ Notes:

• paved the way to 20th century modernist poetry
• he was the most aproved one by the later modernist
• different from arnold and tennyson from religious doubt he is not doubtful*
• he is apreciated by the both groups
• emulated by later poets
• dramatic monologue becomes a norm after him
• speaker is different from the poet himself
• speakers are very different sadistic unusual, murderers sadistic husbands etc
• soliloque asumed listener
• speech is adressed to a silent character
• reader has to reconstruct the poem
• experiments the language and syntax
• grotesque rhymes and grotesque dictions and characters
• less sementic stability by what we make of the poem
• problematize the meaning of the poem
• seem to be humorous in imperfect world
• jaw breaking diction
• inspired by poet shelley
• one point he became atheist but returned
• multiple povs modernist strain, anticipates later works
• untroubled by religious doubts
• obscure
• critical of Darwin
• He believe that God created the world as a test
• different from Victorian taste. in terms of style
• more colloqial and discordiant
• John Donne like*
• unexpected juxtapositions
• james joyce’ s stream of consciousness
• subtitlety* and omniscient
• what is being left out from the poems?*

Porphyria’s Lover

• extreme perversity
• full stops middle of the line
• ABABBACAC
• Grotesque character, criminal, murderer, romanticizing the murder
• yellow hair aristocratic lady, possesion of the lady
• control
• sensationalism
• moral uptightness contradicted with this taste for the scandal
• Victorian Paradox
• playing with sense of self im could be medieval etc
• divided self imagined character

My Last Duchess

• The duke, Promiscuous, prouniscuity?
• The painter a monk
• The duchess
• Dramatic monologue
• Megalomaniac, control freak
• Viewing art as looking at his wife, accusation of she likes anyone who hits on her
• Interfering with painting process like close the wrist of her etc
• Explicit narrator
• She is easy to please by other men, she likes every male mosquitto, she is a man lover
• Beautiful daughter is now an object
• Visitor is horrified and rises with disqust
• He controls social behaviours of people as well
• Rather than poetic narration it is prosy
• Divided self
• Grotesque, uncanny, bizarre
• What makes it Victorian Modern?

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture

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<aside> 📎 My Reading Notes;

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