Research Paper on:
Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

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of Robert Browning and Aphra Behn we note that love plays an incredibly important role in poetry, and we also tend to note that their perceptions of love are less  than ideal. In the following paper we examine two poems from Aphra and two poems from Browning. The poems examined, as they involve various analyses of love, are "Love in  Fantastick Triumph Sat" and "The Disappointment" by Aphra Behn, and "Porphyrias Lover and My last Duchess" by Robert Browning. The paper finishes with a comparison and contrast of the  two poets description of love. Love in Fantastick Triumph Sat The first poem of Aphras to be discussed is "Love in Fantastick Triumph Sat," also known as "Love  Armd" or more recently as "Song." This relatively short poem is a poem that clearly illustrates how cruel and selfish and perhaps even evil, love truly is. She depicts love  as a being, likely a man, who enjoys causing people pain in love. This is obvious in the very first lines which are as follows: "Love in Phantastique Triumph sat,/  Whilst Bleeding hearts about him flowd,/ For whom fresh pays he did create,/ And strange Tyrannick powr he shewd" (Behn 1-4). We see that love is a tyrant of sorts,  enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by loving, a harsh reality that often afflicts  many individuals. It should perhaps be understood that while the average individual likes to imagine that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at  all, many people do not live their lives in this manner. Loving an individual and being harmed by that love is often more devastating than if the individual had never