Comparison of the Three Poems
In the three poems, they all demonstrate the
action of unrequited cove, the three sad stories end up with two
extremely different outcomes. One is to give up loving his lover
(Farmer*s Bride,) while the other is to posses their lovers completely
by killing their lovers. In "The Farmer*s Bride," the speaker said,
"To her wild self. But what to me?*Oh, my god! The down, the soft young
down of her*" This proves the hopelessness in the speaker*s mind, the emerges
how lonely the speaker is. Though he wanted to love his wife, he
had to give up loving her for some unexcused reason between he and his
wife. In the poem "Porphyria*s Lover," the speaker is eager to love
his lover. Nevertheless, he is already heart-broken because of his
lover*s behavior toward him. As a consequence, he is too mad to his
lover that he can be with her forever. In the poem "My Last Duchess,"
the Duke does not know how to stoop himself because he has been thinking
of his superiority. He is too proud to communicate with, and that is why
he also chooses to kill his duchess.
The writers of this three poems try to present
different views between male poets and female poets. Charlotte Mew
is the author of "The Farmer*s Bride," and she must have been thinking
of herself as the farmer*s bride. Meanwhile, she merely wants someone
she does not love to let her free. That is why she made up the person-farmer,
who is quite aware of his losing lover. He describes his bride "shy
as leveret, straight and slight as a young larch tree,*but what to me?"
Charlotte Mew may want her husband to be aware of his losing her love through
such careful observation of her. Maybe she does not know how to express
her affection or she is not able to express, and in this way she hopes
to describe her mood in this poem. In addition, she also showed how
passive his love to her, however, she could not love him, for she is much
comfortable when being with other people or animals, while not with her
husband. Analytically speaking, the female poem fend to demand the
speaker or the one who loved them to introspect themselves at first.
in this poem, speaker had vivid description for his bride, as for Charlotte
Mew, that interprets as a kind of introspection of themselves.
But for Browning*s two poems, he arranged
that the speakers both choose to kill their lovers. Why? Did
he do this out of coincidence? There must have some things hidden
under the two poems. In the tradition, men always stand in the dominate
position. Farmer and Duke are both hoping to show power over their
love, but that is in vain. Browning compared the powerless farmer
and Duke to the other aspect of their lovers. He was obviously aware
of the behavior between men and women. Meanwhile, he may want to
make known of the on-going power of women.
In conclusion, the speakers in these three
poems are all aware of losing their lovers* love.