Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have...

Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of love in them Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of love in them. But they are not all the same theme of love for example Porphyrias Lover is obsessive and seductive love whereas; The Flea is more like sexual love. Robert Browning writes both Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess and John Donne writes The Flea. I think Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are alike as Robert Browning uses similar themes of love in them e.g. Obsessive and Possessive. The Flea is a completely different poem altogether. It is more of a sexual poem rather than obsessive but it could be argued that it is obsessive as well because the male is obsessed†¦show more content†¦The Flea is quite alike Porphyrias Lover. The type of love that is used in The Flea is sexual love. In The Flea the poet attempts to seduce his mistress by overcoming her coyness through argument. The poem although sexual is also religious aswel, ‘ And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.’ This quote shows a religious side to the poem because she is being unreligious and she is making three sins as she is killing three people- The Flea, herself and the poet, the poet makes the Flea represent himself and his mistress and says, ‘Three lives in one flea spare.’ This poem ends with the mistress squashing the Flea and therefore killing their love. I think that this poem could be related to Porphyrias Lover a little bit because the poet is very keen and ob sessed with getting his mistress into bed but unlike Porphyrias Lover it is the male trying to seduce and bed his mistress not the other way around. My Last Duchess is more like Porphyrias Lover than The Flea because in this poem by Robert Browning he does not seduce his mistress instead he kills her. The type of love that is shown in this poem is possessive. This Poem is about a Duke and his Mistress, in the poem the duke gets jealous and possessive over his Duchess ‘ She thanked men – good! But thanked somehow – I know not how – as if she ranked my gift of a nine- hundred- years- old name with anybody’s gift.’ This quote not only shows how possessive theShow MoreRelated The Flea by John Donne and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell6621 Words   |  27 PagesThe Flea by John Donne and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell The Flea by John Donne is written in the 17th century as is To his coy mistress by Andrew Marvell. This we can see by the language used which was typical of that period in time apt to kill me and yea which are taken from the flea. Both poems also speak of virginity being very important, especially before marriage because if a woman had lost her maidenhead before, the husband would have the right to leave her without