Comparing Browning's The Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover

     The first verse “Porphyria's lover” is about class and control. Awoman displays her command over her admirer by seducing him to get attention, going him to a position she likes and healing him like she is the boss of him and his possessions. The man finally moves to extremes to get control and murders her. The second verse “My last Duchess” is also about control. The man is displaying some important visitors round his palace and halts to brag about his latest wife and how he organised her death. Both of the poems are alike because both women in the verse were slain over control. The killings were premeditated and calculated in both poems though in the second poem the husband did not actually commit the crime he just organised it. In the first poem it's the woman who has control in the second it's the man.     In Porphyria's lover by Robert Browning, the narrator who is also the lover in the poem, describes a story in which an upper class woman treats him as if she owns him like a possession rather than as a lover. She walks into his house and rearranges the way he is sitting to show she has power and is in control. Porphyria , the woman, calls his name but he is angry and hurt that he was the least important  thing on her list of things to do so he does not reply

Porphyria shows power again by trying to get his attention by seducing him and telling the narrator she loves him. This surprises the narrator but still he sticks to his plan. The narrator puts Porphyria into a false sense of security then strangles her with her hair finally putting him in control and he ...