How does Browning show the balance of power between men and women in :: English Literature

How does browning show the balance of former surrounded by men and women inMy suffer Duchess and Porphryrias L everyplace?In these two poems Robert Browning shows the balance of power inmale-female relationships. Both are very same in the way that theyportray the women having more power than they should have, and the men non having the power they think they should have.In the first poem, My Last Duchess, Browning shows the Duke nothaving full control over his wife, the Duchess. In the second poem,Porphyrias Lover, the narrator does not have control because she isin a higher class and cannot be with him and she would lower her classand she is not ready to give it up.In My Last Duchess, the Duke is talking to soulfulness about the deadDuchess. He first refers to power over the Duchess in the poem when hesays about the painting of her asshole the curtain, and if anybodywants to see it they would have to ask him first,Since none puts byThe curtain I have drawn for you, but IThis s hows that he still has control over her even though she haspassed on. After that he writes about how every subaltern detail seemedto please her,She hadA heart how shall I say... too before long made glad,Too easily impressed she liked whateerShe looked on, and her looks went everywhere.The Duke gets quite tempestuous at this point,The bough of cherries some officious foolBroke in the orchard for her,This is about how a objet dart broke into the orchard, took a bunch of carmineblossom and gave it to the duchess, and made her very pleased, whichas you can understand he can give her far better things than a commonman can give,As if she rankedMy gift of a nine-hundred-years- nonagenarian nameWith anybodys gift.He gave her his old and important family name which most women wouldgive their happiness to have, when she married him, which in theDukes eyes is better than anything else in the world.He says that to comment on this demeanour is stooping down to a lowerlevel,And I choosene ver to stoopThe Duchesss behaviour becomes beyond tolerable next,Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,Whener I passed her but who passed without a great deal the same smile? This grew I gave commandsThen all smiles stopped together.This greatly suggests that the Duke thought he had the power over theDuchess, and used it to order someone to kill her, although he doesntdirectly say but he strongly hints it. But Browning cleverly wrote the