Analysis of My Last Duchess and Ulyssis

My Last Duchess is a vivid and striking monologue written in 1842. This song represents the first set out of the joint pieces called Italy and France. The poem consists of twenty eight rhyming couplets that are, in my mind, dominated by iambic pentameter. Robert Browning main tool to use in the poem is breaking the lines for regular and irregular pauses. This tool makes the poem rattling easy and enjoyable to read, and creates easy conversational flow. The poem begins with the line Ferrara. The readers finds himself in a field of a very wealthy duke with a lengthy title and immense superpower.At the beginning of the poem we are shown that the duke represents the amazing specially made collection of nontextual matter he possesses. We hear the voice of the main character when he and his guest stop next to the painting with the dukes last wife. The vote counter starts to describe the painting, though rapidly moving to the describing of the duchess herself. From his monolog it bec omes obvious that the narrator considered his late wife to be withal one of his possessions that were commissioned for him according to his will.From the very beginning of the poem the narrator is clear to be portrayed as a person depleted of morality and honesty. The poem shows corruption and wickedness of the speakers character with this presenting similar traits of the society of that time. The plurality then wanted to possess everything can be naturally possessed or not. In his poem Ulysses Tennyson transports us to the Victorian times. The poem structure is also a dramatic monologue. Throughout the poem Tennyson uses enjambment in order to reproduce the meaning and content of the poem which is that of sailing beyond finale.Tennysons poem is deep and resonant, he uses high-sounding verse, particularly by setting different vowel sounds closely against each other. In the poem Ulysses the main character is a hero, a warrior and a famous Ancient Greek traveler. He refuses to sit behind and unwind. His whole life is concerned with traveling, taking on adventures, competing and battling, he scarce rejects that a man can be an idle king (Davis). Both of the poems, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson, are examples of dramatic monologues.As it was already mentioned above they both exclusively consist of the monologs of the protagonists. In both poems there are powerful noble men ruminating about past, though they are very different. What is also different are the poetic devices used in the poems to present these two main characters. The first difference between the main characters is the way they came into power and how they exercise it. The rich Italian duke has acquired all his riches from the nine-hundred-years-old-name.He was born with lengthy titles, in the family with already established name. In his life he never had to do anything to achieve some position. His whole life he went with the flow, expecting others to admir e him and his name and follow his orders. On the contrary, Ulysses has earned his status of a hero after battling in Troy, where he showed his nobility and courage. He is respected by people not because his name tells enough for him and leads to common obedient admiring. They respect him because he is a warrior struggle for Greece.At it can be seen from the previous paragraph the characters of the duke and Ulysses are very different. Even though they both get killed at the end of the poems, the reads see that the ways they took death also says a lot about who they are. Wee see that Ulysses is killed as a hero, while the Duke of Ferraras killing is very far from being heroic. What is raise is that the way the duke was killed was not even personal. Even for his death he gave out orders and expected the job to be done for him.