Analysis - The Laboratory
The literary technique in the line, 'Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?'
What is alliteration?
The literary technique utilised in the line, 'That moment she was mine, mine, fair'.
What is repetition?
The pattern of formal rhythm and rhyme of 'My Last Duchess'.
What is iambic pentameter?
Porphyria is not typical of an upper class women in Browning's era. What era was this?
The Victorian era.
What theme is explored in the line, 'Soon at the King's, a mere lozenge to give, / And Pauline should have just thirty minutes to live!'
What is revenge?
The literary technique in the line: 'While they laugh, laugh at me'.
What is anadiplosis?
The technique when Porphyria's 'yellow hair' (referred to twice) is referred to as 'yellow string', in an attempt to dehumanise her.
What is metaphor?
The literary technique in the line, 'This gave commands / Then all smiles stopped together.'
What is metonymy?
What was Porphyria's one wish, which the speaker satisfied?
They spent the night together.
The theme explored in the line, 'at last I knew / Porphyria worshiped me'.
What is insecurity? OR What is control?
The literary technique in the phrase, 'to carry pure death in an earring, a casket'.
What is metonymy?
Two obvious literary techniques in the opening stanza where 'sullen wind', is spiteful and vexing.
What is pathetic fallacy and personification?
The theme revealed in the line, 'She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.'
What is jealousy?
The dramatic monologue whre the speaker is identified as Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers.
What is 'The Laboratory'?
What theme is presented in the line, 'He is with her, and they know that i know'.
What is jealousy?
The two techniques in the following line, 'Now take all my jewels, gorge gold to your fill.'
What is alliteration and assonance?
Porphyria literally 'made the cheerless grate/ Blaze up, and all the cottage warm'. The literary technique also meant to suggest her fiery personality.
What is metaphor?
The theme, when discussing his potential new bride, revealed in the lie, 'his fair daughter's self... is my object.'
What is objectification (or patriarchal possession)?
The King at whose court the speaker goes to dance?
Who is Louis XIV of France?
The theme identified in the line, 'That moment she was mine, mine, fair'.
What is control? What is jealousy?
The literary technique and the meaning of the phrase, 'devil's smithy.'
What is metaphor, and likening the laboratory to a blacksmith's workshop in hell.
The form and the metre of the dramatic monologue, 'Porphria's Lover'.
What is iambic tetrameter?
The 'gift' metaphorically bestowed in the reference to, 'My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old-name'.
What is aristocratic privilege and power?
The speaker 'debated what to do' when he realised Porphyria 'worshipped' him. What did he decide? (quote)
'I found / A thing to do, and all her hair / In one long yellow string I wound / Three times her little throat around / And strangled her.'
The speaker pays in jewels, but also in her sexuality in 'The Laboratory', understood when she says, 'You may kiss me old man, on my mouth if you will!' Thematically?
What is patriarchal society? (Or what is gender inequality?)