My Last Duchess By Robert Browning And The Rape Of The Lock

â€Å"My Last Duchess† by Robert Browning and â€Å" The Rape of the lock† by Alexander Pope are two poems that convey a theme of love and objectification towards women.For instance, both poems are similar in their use imagery and metaphors to grasp their audience attention. For example, in â€Å"My last duchess† the author shows the wife in the poem as an item controlled by her husband and uses his love for her as an excuse to abuse his power. Her life is ruled by him and she would have to deal with his insane jealousy because his obsessiveness is dominating his reality of his relationship . In this poem the male role has many characteristics one of them being paranoid and not helping him reflect on reality by him owning shrine of items that belonged to all his earlier wife’s. His late wife is shown as a piece of imagery where she is kept on a wall trapped not able to leave his sight or be allowed interact with others. (Browning,1-2) In â€Å" The R ape of the Lock â€Å" the poem starts off with Belinda,the main character, in a dream sent to her by her guardian Sylph. The dream sends a message to Belinda that she must be careful with all men in her life once she has received the message she awakens to a love letter at her sight and forgets the dream in its entirety. Throughout the course of the poem Belinda’s Sylphs are required to protect her chastity and help her contain her purity.. The man in her life is using her as an item and not as a human being.Pope encourages these characteristicsShow MoreRelatedBrit Lit Exam2589 Words   |  11 Pagesright  /  To wield it  .  .  .†| b.|â€Å"betrayed  /  By present objects, and by reasonings false  .  .  .†| c.|â€Å"more like a man  /  Flying from something that he dreads  .  .  .†| d.|â€Å"little lines  /  Of sportive wood run wild  .  .  .†| ____ 12. Poets ____ the Brownings were as well-known in their time ____ today’s entertainers. a.|like; like|c.|like; as| b.|as; as|d.|as; like| ____ 13. Which is the best meaning of the word dispensation as it is used in the line from â€Å"Journey of the Magi†? We returned to