Compare and/or contrast Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” with Charles Algernon Swinburne’s “The Leper” in a careful reading analysis.

Compare and/or contrast Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” with Charles Algernon Swinburne’s “The Leper” in a careful reading analysis. Consider poetic techniques such as form/poetic structure, metre, lineation, rhyme, punctuation, word choice, imagery, symbolism, figures of speech, sound devices, and tone

Links of the poems to be analyzed

-https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

 http://www.telelib.com/authors/S/SwinburneAlgernonCharles/verse/p1/leper.html

PART 1

– how do they differ/alike in (explain in paragraph each)

form/poetic structure

metre

lineation

rhyme

punctuation

word choice

imagery

symbolism

figures of speech

sound devices

tone

PART 2

COMPARE THEM IN EACH ASPECT

Narrative Voice

Who is speaking in this passage?

What narrative perspective is being used in this passage?

What does the narrative voice tell you?

What characters does it give you access to?

Tone:

Is the speaker being straightforward, factual, open?

Is he or she taking a less direct route toward his or her meaning?

Does the voice carry any emotion? Or is it detached from its subject?

Do you hear irony (what is said is different from what is meant)? If so, where?

Rhetorical and Literary devices:

Do you notice any figurative language, such as metaphors and similes?

Do you observe any imagery?

Is the sound of the language and sentences important (e.g., rhyme, repetition, choppy or long sentences)?

What is the effect of these devices and techniques? (e.g., do they add emphasis or connect key ideas?)

Links of the poems to be analyzed

-https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

 http://www.telelib.com/authors/S/SwinburneAlgernonCharles/verse/p1/leper.html