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Browning And Spera

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...and Gabriel Spera's "My Ex-Husband" are both about previous partners, but it appears from a reading of the two that Spera's is actually a clever take off on the Browning work.
In both poems we have only the narrator's word for what happened to the spouse, and what they were like. But whereas Browning's Duke almost certainly killed his Duchess, Spera's ex appears to be still alive and in fairly good health, though he is something of a snake where women are concerned.
The two poems discuss the same things in approximately the same order. The narrator first calls our attention to the portrait, or in Spera's case, the photo, and then says that is the previous partner. The Duchess looks "as if she were alive," which obviously tells us that she's dead; Spera's ex is smiling "as if in love," which tells us that the marriage was not a happy one. But the parallel between the two constructions is striking, and we are obviously meant...

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