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It reviews how poets create criminal narratives through distinctive voices, often centering murder, violence, and the criminal psyche. Sections discuss murder and violence across Crabbe, Browning, and Wilde, including jealousy, punishment, and the psychology behind wrongdoing. 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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of the genre. There are some brief comments on how some elements of the genre can be linked to the text, although teachers and students may well think of other relevant ideas. We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan, and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail.  \n\"That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,  \nlooking as if she were alive.” -My Last Duchess  \nOverview  \nThis collection of poems offers a variety of insights into different elements of the crime writing genre. What is particularly interesting are the voices that the poets choose to tell stories which have crimes of some magnitude at their heart. The voices Browning chooses are those of murderers or in the case of the female speaker in The Laboratory, one who has murderous intent. All Browning’s speakers reveal their crimes with confidence and impunity and have no fear of detection. Crabbe’s narrator is censorious, condemning Peter for his ghastly crimes though giving him a long confessional in which some sympathy is established for the fallen and hopeless man. Wilde’s speaker, so easy to identify as the poet himself given that his personal story of his own imprisonment in The Ballad of Reading Gaol is interwoven in the narrative, writes elegiacally and sympathetically not about the victim of crime but about the criminal who is punished by incarceration and then hanged. The focus in Wilde’s poem paradoxically is on the injustice of justice and the horrors of Victorian punishment.  \nMurder and violence  \nCrabbe’s and Browning’s stories centre on a murder or murders while Wilde’s poem has a murder in its back-story. Crabbe describes how Peter abuses his father, indirectly bringing about his death and is then responsible for the deaths of three “piteous orphans” he buys from the workhouse. Browning’s jealous Duke in My Last Duchess “gave commands” and stopped the smiles of his young wife permanently; the lover of Porphyria strangles her so that she remains eternally his and the female poisoner in The Laboratory wants her rivals in love to suffer agonising deaths. Their behaviour marks them as criminals of the most heinous of crimes. Wilde also writes about a murderer – here a real life figure, trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who cut the throat of the wife whom he loved out of jealousy. Wilde says little about the crime itself other than that she was a “poor dead woman whom [Wooldridge] loved” and he slightly romanticisesand sanitises the real story by saying she, like Desdemona, was “murdered in her bed” (in real life Wooldridge had been violent to his wife some weeks before the murder, had told a colleague that on the day of the murder he was “going todo some damage” and had actually put a razor to his wife’s throat in the street) . Significantly Wilde also says nothing of her apparent unfaithfulness or of Wooldridge’s jealousy. What Wilde focuses on is the potential for murder that isin all human beings (“Yet each man kills the thing he loves”) . He does not single out Wooldridge as an aberrant individual; he is simply a flawed human being, one who like others has been ensnared in the “iron gin that waits for Sin”.  \nIn crime stories, a key element that is often found is violence. Violence is described explicitly in Peter Grimes and Porphyria’s Lover. Peter’s “savage” acts are listed and repeated (the first boy has bruises that make him stoop and the third suffers “vile blows” that lead to his death); and the lover calmly explainshow “he found a thing to do” and strangles ","cbCaiu6s7IWLoDq1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu6s7IWLoDq1","pdf",86072,"English","# Overview\n## Murder and violence\n## The criminal psyche","[{\"question\":\"How does the document connect the poetry collection to the crime writing genre?\",\"answer\":\"It provides an introductory overview for teachers, focusing on how different poems can be read through crime-writing conventions, especially through narrative voices that carry crimes at their core.\"},{\"question\":\"What roles do murder and violence play across the three poets discussed?\",\"answer\":\"Crabbe and Browning emphasize murder directly, while Wilde’s poem includes a murder in its back-story. 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