My Last Duchess
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- Created on: 07-05-19 15:42
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- My Last Duchess
- Context
- Robert Browning was known for dramatic monologues
- Reflects Browning's love of European history/ culture
- Based on Italian Duke
- Duke of Ferrara married 3 women (2 died)
- Themes
- Power of humans
- Storm On The Island
- London
- Memory
- Remains
- War Photographer
- Pride
- Identity
- The Charge of The Light Brigade
- Power of humans
- Linked poems
- Ozymandias (power of humans, pride)
- The Prelude (memory, pride)
- The Emigrée (memory and identity)
- Tissue (power of humans, identity)
- Kamikaze (memory, identity)
- Poppies (identity, memory)
- Checking Out Me History (power of humans, identity)
- Techniques
- Possessive pronoun "My"
- AABB rhyme scheme (couplets show control)
- Person-ification ("half-flush that dies")
- Enjambment/ punctuation to create sense of regular speech
- Dramatic monologue
- Iambic pentameter (reflection of when it's set)
- Alliteration "Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands"
- Similie (“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”)
- Quotes
- "Looking as if she were alive"
- "The faint half-flush that dies along her neck"
- "Too soon made glad, too easily impressed"
- "Her looks went everywhere"
- "I choose never to stoop"
- "I gave commands then all smiles stopped together."
- "There she stands as if alive"
- "Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse"
- Context
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