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English Coursework Compare the presentation of relationships in My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover and The Laboratory. In this essay I am going to write about how Robert Browning portrays love in the three poems "My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover and The Laboratory". All three of these poems are dramatic monologues. Dramatic monologues are a combination of the words dramatic and monologue. The "dramatic" says that it could be acted out, and is a form of drama, however the "monologue" defines it as a speech that one person makes, either to themselves or to another. A dramatic monologue is written to reveal both the situation at hand and the character him/herself. A dramatic monologue should include a fictional speaker/audience, symbolic setting, talismanic props, dramatic gestures, an emphasis on speakers' subjectivity, a focus on dramatics, problematics of irony/non-irony and involved readers role playing. Robert Browning was born in 1812 in South London, Camberwell...

