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How do the poems you have studied portray women? Refer to at least two poems in detail.
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How do the poems you have studied portray women? Refer to at least two poems in detail. Within the five poems we have studied, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', 'Lady of Shalott', 'My last duchess', 'Porphyria's lover' and 'Marianna'. Women are portrayed as weak characters with no voice. All of these poems are seen through the eyes of men, who accuse them of being self-centred and lacking in morals. However, these judgements can be placed upon the men themselves. The social/historical position of women during the nineteenth century can be identified within the poems. Browning's dramatic monologues in particular show women's lack of voice and dependency on men during the eighteen hundreds. Showing both women as possessions of men. The powerlessness of women is shown within Tennyson's poems; 'Mariana' and ' The Lady of Shalott'. 'Mariana' wastes her life because of a man and the 'The Lady of Shalott' looses...
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