My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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- Created on: 02-11-14 13:49
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- My Last Duchess
- Structure
- Iambic pentameter underlines the dramatic monologue and adds to his self importance.
- It is also like the heartbeat of the portrait
- Makes it more of a story
- Iambic pentameter underlines the dramatic monologue and adds to his self importance.
- Poem
- Duchess is dead at the time of the poem
- The narrator is the Duke/ husband of the Duchess
- Unreliable, he feels that he is the one who has been wronged, we only get his side of the story.
- Most likely Alfonso II, a Italian Duke who married, at the age of 25, married 14 year old Lucrezia de' Medici
- Author- Robert Browning
- English poet and playwright
- Themes
- Pride
- The Duke is proud in/of himself this can be seen in "my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
- The Duke is proud of his possesions which can be seen in the last 10 or so lines of the poem where this is what he talks about.
- However, the Duchess is also viewed as a possesion
- Jealousy
- He was jealous of other men and thought his wife was cheating on him
- Power
- The Duke has and wants power over others
- His wife- controls who sees her, killed her etc. The visitors- doesn't let them speak, assumes he knows what they want to ask him
- The Duke has and wants power over others
- Pride
- Form
- Dramatic monologue
- The Duke is the only character that is speaking, draws attention back to the fact he is self-absorbed
- Adds power to the Duke
- The Duke is the only character that is speaking, draws attention back to the fact he is self-absorbed
- Dramatic monologue
- Structure
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