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Discuss the Themes of Love and Madness in Robert Browning's Poetry I will discuss the themes of love and madness in Robert Browning's poems called "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyry's Lover." "My last Duchess" is set in the renaissance, period in Ferrara, northern Italy, whereas "Porphyry's Lover" is set in the Victorian times. Two different age gaps The madness and love in both poems is shown in many ways such as the obsession for control. Control is shown in both poems, the duke in "My Last Duchess" has a passion for control over his wife, "Too easily impressed; she liked what ever, she looked on, and her looks went everywhere." This shows that he had no control over her, as she looked everywhere and she was too easily impressed by the things she saw. The madness for control in "Porphyry's lover" is in a different context as we have the idea that the...

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