Comparing Robert Browning's Poems

Throughout all the poems there is a mention of God. In Porphyria's Lover at the end Browning says ' And yet God has not said a word' . He expects God to judge him for killing his lover, but as God has not said anything he assures himself that he has done nothing wrong, so it was right for him to keep her in purity safe for himself and preserve her in the way, in body she is. Also in Fra Lippo Lippi this occurs again, Fra Lippo Lippi has grown up in a church as a monk, but this time disagrees with the ideas of the church because he is their painter and wants to paint people in the 'flesh' instead of in the soul. He contradicts Porphyria's lover as shown with the quote 'They with their Latin? So I  swallow my rage'. He totally disagrees with the church as he doesn't believe in the church and he wants to see people as in life. Again in The Laboratory Browning  'Empty church, to pray God in, for them!- I am here.' shows that the female voice of the poem believes in God as she prays to have her man and that by doing so the poisoning of the girlfriend, she prays that all will go well for her. Lastly My Last Duchess lots of religious words are used such as ' passion' 'joy'.

All of Brownings Poems are dramatic monologues and generally about death in some way whether it is The Patriot, about someone who has sinned, in the eyes of others and is sentenced to death, or Porphyria's Lover, where her lover kills her, or the Laboratory, where someone is poisoned to death. However my last duchess is about a man's last lovers, that could have died but I think that they have just been and gone, so to speak.

Also throughout Browning's poems he covers the themes that would not happen at the time that these poems were set. He does this to show how society has changed or possibly small parts of society that were not accepted but to show that these things did happen.