Browning Essays

According to Lee A. Silva’s document, “John Browning’s 1887 Lever Action Shotgun was Another Winner for Winchester and a Hit with Wells Fargo Guards,” many of John Browning’s designs and ideas went into Oliver Winchester’s firearms (Silva). Winchester also had many other occupations other than gunsmithing. The three most important …

“Porphyria’s lover” (PL) and “The laboratory” (TL) are two dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Browning uses a range of techniques to reveal the characters psyche. The characters are both insane and deluded but have big differences, such as one of them is sadistic and the other suffering from subconscious …

Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue, a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker, we the reader must wonder carefully what the Duke is telling us, and we often have …

In the poem “My Ex-Husband” by Gabriel Spera the main character displays hate for her husband, which in time reveals her love for him. The hateful tone in the poem contributes to the fact that she dislikes her husband, but at the same time she is stuck in the past, …