My Last Duchess Essay
Magen Gable
Professor Box
English 2201-025
11 September 2016
“My Last Duchess” “My Last Duchess” written by Robert Browning is a compelling poem that exposes many different elements when analyzed closely. This is a dramatic monologue that demonstrates a very jealous man who wants complete control over his Duchess. In this poem, a Duke is showing a portrait of his first wife to a servant of his future father-in-law in his private art gallery. He keeps this portrait behind a curtain that only he can draw. Throughout this poem he also reveals his personality as an extremely controlling, jealous man. He shows the reader his personality by describing the portrait of the duchess. In a sense, he shows his true feelings he had towards her. As the Duke is describing how the duchess was easily pleased the reader can sense a bit of jealously and possibly interprets what caused her mysterious death and the motive of her death was. To begin with, the Duke is describing a portrait of his last duchess to a servant. He ask the servant nicely to please have a seat to admire the full-length portrait of his last duchess. The kindness of the question might seem false and seem …show more content…
The Duke then goes on and says she likes whatever she sees, and the duchess sees everything. The reader may interpret that this is describing how she finds an interest in any man she comes across. He then began to develop on how anything that was pleasant to her was all the same. The Duke compares how she would react the same way to a piece of jewelry as she would to “The bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her.” Not that she is fond of cherries, but that an “officious fool” brought them to
Professor Box
English 2201-025
11 September 2016
“My Last Duchess” “My Last Duchess” written by Robert Browning is a compelling poem that exposes many different elements when analyzed closely. This is a dramatic monologue that demonstrates a very jealous man who wants complete control over his Duchess. In this poem, a Duke is showing a portrait of his first wife to a servant of his future father-in-law in his private art gallery. He keeps this portrait behind a curtain that only he can draw. Throughout this poem he also reveals his personality as an extremely controlling, jealous man. He shows the reader his personality by describing the portrait of the duchess. In a sense, he shows his true feelings he had towards her. As the Duke is describing how the duchess was easily pleased the reader can sense a bit of jealously and possibly interprets what caused her mysterious death and the motive of her death was. To begin with, the Duke is describing a portrait of his last duchess to a servant. He ask the servant nicely to please have a seat to admire the full-length portrait of his last duchess. The kindness of the question might seem false and seem …show more content…
The Duke then goes on and says she likes whatever she sees, and the duchess sees everything. The reader may interpret that this is describing how she finds an interest in any man she comes across. He then began to develop on how anything that was pleasant to her was all the same. The Duke compares how she would react the same way to a piece of jewelry as she would to “The bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her.” Not that she is fond of cherries, but that an “officious fool” brought them to