Analyze how this convention is found in Robert Browning's poems "Porphyria's Lover," "The Laboratory," and "My Last
Duchess"; and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Gothic drama The Cenci. Why does Gothic literature
focus on the past? What effect does this have? Provide textual evidence for your response.

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion