http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/my-last-duchess Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:21:08 -0400 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:21:08 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/161/the-balance-of-power-between-men-and-women-in-robert-brownings-poems By Alina Saminsky - The first observation that supports this point is that originally the men do not have power. One way that this is demonstrated to the reader is the author’s choice to make the men insane. In “Porphyria’s Lover,” the man is paranoid. He describes the storm that is going on around him in the same manner that one describes a person, “The sullen wind was soon awake,/It tore the elm-tops down for spite,/And did its worst to vex the lake” (57), which makes him seem suspicious. The reader also realizes that while there is this storm going on, the man is sitting alone... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/161/the-balance-of-power-between-men-and-women-in-robert-brownings-poems