Title: Week III: Robert Browning
Subject: Porphyria's Lover”, “My Last Duchess”.
Date:
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💡 Key Points:
- Main Ideas
- Key words
- Questions that connect points
- Important points
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✏️ 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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📎 Summary:
A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture
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📎 My Reading Notes;
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