Compare two Robert Browning poems - The Laboratory and My last Duchess. :: English Literature

Compare two Robert toasting poems - The Laboratory and My last Duchess.The two Robert Browning poems I have elect are The Laboratory andMy last Duchess. My initial reaction on reading The lab wasone of horror and fascination as it tells a tale of a woman scorned. Ifound it horrifying that a human be could plan in such a cold andcalculating modality, hardly I too found this fascinating.Not that I bid you spare her the painfulnessLet death be felt and the proof remainMy feelings on reading My closing curtain Duchess was pity for the Duke who wasnarrating the poem as it was clear that his green-eyed monster and insecurityhad ruined their relationship.she smiled, no doubt,Wheneer I passed her but who passed withoutMuch the identical smile?Both poems have contemporary relevance, as people nowadays are stillintrigued by murder, mystery and tales of unrequited love. It is very self-explanatory that the poems were wrote in the 19th ascorbic acid though, as someof the language is n o longer in use in todays society eg durst/daredand forsooth/indeed. in that respect are other indications that the poetry waswritten in the 19th century by the references made to the use of a fanand also the way the poison was prepared using pestle and mortar.Grind away moisten and suppress up thy paste,Pound at thy powder-I am not in haste.The subject of the poem in My Last Duchess is infact a painting, had itbeen written in the twenty-first century it would have been far more likely tohave been a photograph.The theme of The Laboratory is one of the eternal love triangle.Whereas the theme in my last duchess would seem to be about anobsessive yet unstable lover. The similarity would be the extremejealousy that is displayed by both narratives. The residuum is thatthe narrator in My Last Duchess is so jealous and insecure that hegave commandsThen all smiles stopped together.implying that he sent away or disposed of his loved one in some way.In The Laboratory, the focusing of je alousy is directed at the otherwoman.He is with her, and they know that I knowThe persona of the narrator in The Laboratory displays an intensityof emotion through her writ large jealousy of the other woman, thisintensity of jealousy could only be achieved if she also hadexperienced the same level of love. Similarly, the character of thenarrator in My Last Duchess also displays obvious jealousy although itis without such an intensity of emotion. It is my opinion that the