Comparing texts from different genres is perhaps one of the most interesting things you will learn to do at A-level. Robert Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ (1836) is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker decides to control his mistress and keep her for himself. In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1837–39) Bill Sikes believes that Nancy has betrayed him and so murders her.
Read the poem and extract first and then look at the questions in the boxes. Then try using these approaches with short extracts and poems from your set texts.
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