Comparing Poems Kid, Havisham, The Laboratory And My Last Duchess

Comparing the Poems Kid, Havisham, The Laboratory and My Last Duchess

The poems are all dramatic monologues about aspects of love and the feelings and emotions that evolve from that.

Kid is a comical monologue spoken in the voice of Robin, Batman's sidekick. Simon Armitage imagines what would have happened after the story of Batman and Robin's adventures. Robin is bitter towards Batman as he abandoned him, yet he has succeeded out of it and is therefore grateful to Batman. We this in the line, 'now I'm taller, harder, stronger older,' the opposite of what he was before.

Havisham is also a monologue about a woman, jilted by her scheming fiancé, she continues to wear her wedding dress and sit amid

The oxymoron, 'beloved sweetheart bastard' shows the mixed and miscellaneous views of 'wishing him dead' but also crying at the wall for him to return. The line 'some nights better, the lost body over me, my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear then down till I suddenly bite awake.' This shows she sometimes dreams of her lost lover, but when she awakes the bitterness and hatred returns.

My Last Duchess is about the Duke of Ferrara, talking to the go - between arranging his next marriage. He shows the man a painting hidden behind curtains of his previous or 'last' wife. The poem is very conventional as it uses iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets and enjambment. Beneath the surface is a terrible story of ruthless and despotic of the Dukes disapproval of his wife's innocent acts and naivety, who loses her life for not being appreciative of his great name. The picture kept hidden shows that he still feels a love for her and that now she is a piece of art he is able to control her which shows his sick, unnerving possessive side.

The Laboratory is a psychologically fascinating dramatic

Browning explores the jealousy and vengefulness of someone disappointed in love.

All the poems use enjambment but use it for different uses such as suspense, pity, reflection on the characters and anticipation.

Havisham and The Laboratory are about seeking revenge on someone, after feeling pain through love or lack of. Both poems are similar as there is an element of jealousy within the killers. The duke of Ferrara is jealous that his wife is more attentive to other men, and the woman in 'The Laboratory' is jealous of her lover's mistress. Both of the characters in the poems are driven to kill because of their jealousy, it is because of their partners they are led to commit a murder. The duke is angry that his wife does not value his nine-hundred-year-old family name, and then jealous woman is enraged that her husband is with another woman.

Havisham and Kid are about being left alone or abandoned and the consequences from it. Kid is more reflecting on the triumph of succeeding when left alone which, shows the positive side of losing his security and 'like a father figure' but gaining independence.