Comparing Carol Ann Duffys Havisham and Robert Brownings The Laborato

Comparing chant Ann Duffys Havisham and Robert brownings The LaboratoryIn the poem Havisham, Carol Ann Duffy presents the subject as an old, embittered fair sex with ropes on the back of her hands. In The Laboratory by Robert Browning the subject is a strong and determined, but very jealous and embittered, childly woman. Both poems are written in the first person in the form of a dramatic monologue. Carol Ann Duffy writes about the feelings of rejection, isolation and aloneness that a woman who has been jilted at the alter by her keep up might feel. I think that feelings such as this in some(prenominal) of the poems reserve been based on either literature or diachronic events, for example Havisham was most likely based on Miss Havisham, a rich lady in the novel Great Expectations by Charles daemon and The Laboratory was probably influenced by the celebrated French murderess (who has been said to have poisoned her family).Oxymoronic phrases are used throughout the poem Havis ham such as lamb Sweetheart Bastard and Loves/hate to express the ambivalence that this woman ...