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In the poems ‘My Last Duchess’, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Farmers Bride’, the poets Robert Browning and Charlotte Mew create three different men, none of whom understand their women and through their dramatic monologues reveal their train of thought.
In ‘My Last Duchess’, Robert Browning creates an arrogant character. Through the Duke’s dramatic monologue we can ascertain that he is a well spoken man as he uses archaic words such as: “durst” and “forsooth”. This archaic language also shows an upper class upbringing and education.
However, though he is an articulate man, several times during his monologue he pretends not to be and searches for the words to say. This is very noticeable in an otherwise almost practised speech in which he knows exactly what to say: “how shall I say?”, “Even had you skill in speech (which I have not)”. This searching for words does not match the rest of his well-spoken speech that uses complex vocabular...