Scarica Robert browning's life and his poem: Porphyria's lover e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Robert Browning => life at page 527 and 528 For our victorian age is kinda interesting He spent his life with is parents until the age 33 => the father was a highly educated and he tutored him, so he studied at home. His father was a magister, and also the mother was well educated (eruditi) => they belongs to the upper class. Browning only attended university, before he was taught by his father whereas his mother was pious (donna pia), religious but also good musician => all of these are the characteristic of the typical victorian family The father was the authorital tutor instead the mother was the well one. She: Run the house Grow up the children How to serve tea How to play the plan How to sing While most critics rejected the work, Elizabeth Barrett defended it. Browning wrote to thank her for her praise and asked to meet her. She hesitated at first but finally relented, and the couple quickly fell in love. Barrett’s strict father disliked Browning, whom he viewed as an unreliable fortune hunter, so most of the courtship was conducted in secret. On September 12, 1846, while her family was away, Barrett sneaked out of the house and met Browning at St. Marylebone Parish Church, where they were married. She returned home for a week, keeping the marriage a secret, then fled with Browning to Italy. She never saw her father again. Porphyria’s lover => dramatic monologue(when someone speak in front of an audience without sayin a word, only the monologist speak) => we found this in Shakespeare, which he admire a lot) but is more actuate to say victorian dramatic monologue not because of the age but the peculiarities inside the monologue => from Shakespeare => he took the iambic pentameter (is called the masculine meter => this thing show us the dichotomy of the victorian society) and the free verse. In the porphyria’s love he use irony => the central theme is the desire => who’s speaking in the poem? We have the lyrical I but instead of represent the author words it’s an imaginary speaker. Also we can found an It in the poem that represents the she. The immaginary speaker in the dramatic monologue are different characters => some of the critics said that the imaginary speaker is porphyria's lover because porphyria’s herself was killed by her lover itself. The setting is always specified sometimes also coincide with an historical events=> the murder happened in a house (in a cottage => they are in the countryside, gets idea from the romantic ideology)=> there’s also a dichotomy between the setting and the story itself Subject matter : Love and lover (outsider the marriage => it’s something scandal => it’s not something honorable => it’s not plausible during the victorian age) U as a man u can do everything u want but as woman u became a fallen woman (during this age the women would be sentenced=> also until the 60’s the woman was a property of a men) Porphyria is also a name of a sickness (disease) Also one of the other main theme is about the mentality instability The victorian compromise => approfondire Browning makes use of irony and the languages sounds like the everyday one
