English Literature Poetry - My Last Duchess
- Created by: Laura J Thomas - Team GR
- Created on: 01-04-13 13:43
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- My Last Duchess
- 'My'
- first word; personal pronoun; self-centered
- 'That's my last duchess painted on the wall'
- conversational tone; casual; did not are about wife
- 'my' 'I'
- possessive pronouns; self-absorbed
- 'painted on the wall'
- succession of wives
- 'Looking as if she were alive'
- is dead
- 'That piece a wonder'
- proud
- 'Fra Pandolf's'
- artist
- 'busily'
- would have worked slowly if he wanted to be with wife
- 'Will't please you sit and look at her?'
- Untitled
- 'depth and passion'
- can hide secrets; passionate about the artist
- 'earnest'
- innocent
- 'countenance'
- face/expression
- 'The curtain I have drawn for you, but I'
- can control who sees wife - something he could not do when she was alive
- 'Her husband's presence only'
- she was unfaithful
- 'called that spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek:'
- she is blushing; cares about artist's view of her
- 'perhaps'
- imagining it; obsessive
- 'she liked whate'er she looked on'
- flirts with every man she sees
- 'My favour at her breast' 'dropping of the daylight in the West' 'bough of cherries' 'the white mule'
- likes natural things; semantic field of nature
- 'Would draw from her alike the approving speech, or blush, at least. She thanked men - good!!'
- flirted with other men; appreciated their attention
- 'Somehow - I know not how - as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift'
- feels she should have valued his gift more
- 'which I have not'
- is not good at saying how he feels
- 'and I choose never to stoop'
- has lots of pride; would not stoop to show he is bothered by the Duchess
- 'I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together'
- Duke had Duchess killed; syncecdoche
- 'Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse'
- metaphor for him taming her
- 'me!'
- last word; personal pronoun; self-centered
- 'Nay, we'll go together down, Sir'
- envoy was trying to leave/escape
- '''Just this or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, or there exceed the mark''
- refuses to address the problem; pridefu
- 'My'
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