Summary of the poem The laboratory,ancien regime
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The Laboratory: Ancien Regime is a poem written by Victorian poet Robert Browning. The poem composed as a dramatic monologue, and this is also a metaphysical poem. The poem The laboratory explores psyche of a vengeful woman who is planned to kill his husband or lover’s lover with a poison. She sits in a laboratory of an old chemist who has agreed to make a deadly poison with which she intends t kill her lover’s lover. the poem explores the inner frustration and extreme jealousy of a women who is jilted in love.
Poem The Laboratory starts in a laboratory in which the chemist and the women are busy making a poison. The women wears a mask and closely watches the process of making the poison, in that smoke-filled laboratory. She compares the laboratory with “devil’s-smithy”
the women thinks about her lover and his beloved talking about him and making fun of her. They might think that she is praying to God in a church, but she is not. She is sitting in a laboratory to make poison this conviction make her proud and she is proud about her determination. The mad women helps the chemist in the process and asks questions continuously. She orders him to mask up the paste and pound the powder. Even though she got another important thinks to do like dancing in the kings court. But all those things are now unimportant to her as she is in the process.
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