Hitcher, Education For Leisure, My Last Duchess, and The Lab Essay

Hitcher, Education For Leisure, My Last Duchess, and The science lab Hitcher By Simon Armitage, Education For Leisure By Carol AnneDuffy, My Last Duchess and The Lab by Robert Browning are allpoems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence.Hitcher is a poem approximately a man who is angry at being threatened withthe sack, he picks up a hitch-hiker and kills him and then leaves himon the road side. The poetic voice seems to be psychotic and alsotalks about the attack in a casual manner.Ed for Leisure also deals with a bitter person who feels he has beenlet down by society. As he becomes increasingly demotivated, he getsmore and more violent ending with leaving the house with a breadknife. Both poets aim to show us that people are unpredictable andinnocent people often fall victim to anger that has gone too far.Both of the poems are arranged in stanzas, Hitcher contains somefull and half rhyme to keep the poem moving but Education forLeisure is in free verse with short op en lines showing thecharacters irrational mind. Both authors ch...