Robert Browning was a poet during the Victorian age, he wrote about love and established it through his characters. His works explore the nature of love, as shown in "Porphria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess". In both poems, Robert Browning uses multiple literary devices to help establish the theme of the nature of love. "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess", it is extremely important to know the commonalities between these two poems. Both are dramatic monologues in which lovers tell their love stories. While in "Porphyria's Lover" the lover is an abnormal man who tells how he made Porphyria's love for him eternal, in "My Last Duchess" the lover is a proud man who boasts of his last duchess and how he controlled her with his abilities. "Porphyria's Lover" is a poem about a man with an abnormal love. In the poem, Porphyria's lover lives in a cottage in the countryside. On a stormy night, his lover Porphyria arrives, “the dark wind awoke early,” and “and did all she could to vex the lake” (“Porphyria's Lover” Ln. 2-4), is the personification used to describe the landscape. Furthermore, “the s...