My Last Duchess
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- My Last Duchess
- Robert Browning
- born in England but lived in Italy for many years
- he was fascinated by the Italian Renaissance
- a period where art flourished
- he was fascinated by the Italian Renaissance
- He was restricted within the Victorian era so he wrote in other characters so he could write about taboo subjects
- born in England but lived in Italy for many years
- Structure & Form
- Rhyming couplets
- he wants to part of a respectable couple
- iambic pentameter
- reinforces the impression that the Duke and the visitor are in conversation
- reflects his controlling personality
- enjambment
- suggests he's getting carried away with his anger
- narrative poem
- he's telling a story as he wants to be perceived in a certain way
- Rhyming couplets
- sibilance
- "I gave commands... then all smiles stopped"
- has a sinister tone
- the lack of explanation suggests he doesnt feel he has to account for his actions
- a euphemism for his wife's murder
- has a sinister tone
- "I gave commands... then all smiles stopped"
- control
- parenthesis
- "none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you, but i..."
- he controls who looks at the painting but couldn't control who looked at his wife when she was alive
- the idea of a wife being a husband's possession
- he's obsessed with power
- he enjoys the control he has now
- he controls who looks at the painting but couldn't control who looked at his wife when she was alive
- "none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you, but i..."
- "not the first are you to turn and ask thus"
- creates the impression of a question from the visitor
- we hear it through the dukes voice
- creates the impression of a question from the visitor
- possesive pronoun and simile
- "my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive"
- shows he viewed her as an object
- when he re tells the story he brings her back to life
- the idea that the husband should be in charge
- sets a sinister tone
- "my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive"
- “No just pretence of mine for dowry will be disallowed”
- hes arranging his next marriage
- He saw her as another one of his possession to be collected and admired just like his artwork
- hes arranging his next marriage
- parenthesis
- pride
- repetition
- "stoop"
- he felt his wife was beneath him
- rather than stoop he had her killed
- "stoop"
- “She ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift”
- this hurt his pride
- he thinks she should appreciate it more than she did
- jealous because he couldn’t stand the way the Duchess treated him the same as everyone else
- he thinks she should appreciate it more than she did
- this hurt his pride
- repetition
- Robert Browning
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