My Last Duchess And Musee Des Beaux Arts Essays -

My Last Duchess And Musee Des Beaux Arts The Poems "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden describes how people don't care about each other and that world is cruel. In "My Last Duchess" the guy is talking the messenger from the duchess about how he killed his wife and was happy about it, whereas in "Musee des Beaux Arts" the kid is dying in water but his father or not even the people in the ship care about him, they just let him drown in the water and lastly the poem "The Sick Rose" by William Blake has perfect metaphor reflecting the behavior and feeling of a human being by comparing love to an invisible worm, which destroys people lives. This three poem reflects people just don't care about each other and people have lost the meaning of love. In "My Last Duchess" the guy is describing to his how he killed his ex-wife and that he was happy about it. He liked a girl and girl was beautiful and young. She liked to flirt around and liked everything in this world. She liked all men and women. She smiles at everyone and like everyone around her. She smiled at the guy too but he is not happy about it because he thinks that she is his woman and she should not look at anyone else except him. Even the guy said to the messenger that, "Will't Please you sit and look at her?" (Browning 550), which shows she was beautiful and one's eyes would just stare at her for a long time. He also said, "Her mantle laps Over my Lady's wrist too much," or "Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat" Parekh 2 (Browning 550) which shows she was courteous, disciplined and beautiful. She had a good heart, which loved everyone and made everyone glad but the author did not like the fact she considers everyone same as him and that she does not pay more attention to him than others. The author also gave her a gift but she considered all the gifts as the same and did not differentiate between a bad and a good gift. In other she did not care about author's feeling and the love that author had for her. The author says, "Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there you exceed the mark" (Browning 550) which represents that she treats everyone equal and did not give more importance to author. She considers author as one of nine hundred men that she likes. And after a while she passed the author without a smile, and that offended author because he really liked her and she did not cared about him. The guy was angry with the lady and he commanded his men to kill her to show his power over the lady. The guy says, "I gave commands; Then all the smiles stopped together." (Browning 550) this shows that the author proved his power over the lady by killing her. The guy wants her command over the lady so he killed her and now he is regretting for his deeds. And now he asks the lady in the picture to come back to him. He says, "Will't please your rise?"(Browning 550) this shows the guy cares from her now, after she is dead. This whole scenario reflects that people don't care about each other. The duchess loved everyone but the guy wanted her but did not achieve her so he Parekh 3 killed her. This is a selfish and cruel world we live in. People just don't understand the feeling and the type of relationship that the other person is trying to follow. On the other hand the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" shows that people around the world don't care about each other even if the person is dying. The kids father made him a like wings out wax so he could fly but he warned him by saying not to fly near sun or near water, but the kid flew near the ocean water and the wax melted and the kid fell into the ocean and was drowning. Although the kid was drowning nobody was even trying to help him save. His father was busy ploughing the field he did not care either. The sheep were grazing; the dog was scratching himself on a tree; the sailor was sailing his ship he did