My Last Duchess's Duke
1. My last Duchess’s Duke begins by bringing up the portrait which he starts reminiscing but they aren’t the most positive thoughts. Memories of the last duchess’s attitude towards other men, the Duke had the feeling of being unappreciated by passing on a Victorian name and she did not give the name any respect. I think that all the duchess’s actions made the Duke react by giving the command to “take care of her,” meaning to get rid of her by death so he can remarry.
2. Ferrara is addressing the Court; the father of the daughter he now wants to marry. It is ironic how while he is criticizing the last duchess’s personality, while he is revealing his personality of how dislikeable he is by the way he talks so bad about his dead wife, makes you think he is stuck up and only …show more content…
The Duke did not like her behavior; he stated that she was very flirtatious with everyone, therefore, not being appreciative of his gift of a “nine-hundred-year old name.” He does not think highly of women, he is in the mindset of controlling women, and women to him are not for loving instead it’s more for show, almost like having a pet.
“Naming of Parts”
1. The two speakers in the poem are almost like a teacher-student scenario, in this case a sergeant and the recruiter at a military camp where the explanation of weapon parts is being taught. Their respective lines differ in tone because the instructor speaks to the trainee by contrasting the weapon to the beauty of nature and disaster of war. Whereas the recruit does not have the experience of a war to fully understand.
3. Ambiguities and puns contribute to the poems meaning, because the comparison of weapon parts and beauty of spring in a way is describing the war, something with accuracy such as a gun and someone that is inexperienced represents the peace and chaos in a war. The guns were representations of getting ready to go to war; bees attacking the garden symbolized the war in a sense, the life of recruits and the life of the
2. Ferrara is addressing the Court; the father of the daughter he now wants to marry. It is ironic how while he is criticizing the last duchess’s personality, while he is revealing his personality of how dislikeable he is by the way he talks so bad about his dead wife, makes you think he is stuck up and only …show more content…
The Duke did not like her behavior; he stated that she was very flirtatious with everyone, therefore, not being appreciative of his gift of a “nine-hundred-year old name.” He does not think highly of women, he is in the mindset of controlling women, and women to him are not for loving instead it’s more for show, almost like having a pet.
“Naming of Parts”
1. The two speakers in the poem are almost like a teacher-student scenario, in this case a sergeant and the recruiter at a military camp where the explanation of weapon parts is being taught. Their respective lines differ in tone because the instructor speaks to the trainee by contrasting the weapon to the beauty of nature and disaster of war. Whereas the recruit does not have the experience of a war to fully understand.
3. Ambiguities and puns contribute to the poems meaning, because the comparison of weapon parts and beauty of spring in a way is describing the war, something with accuracy such as a gun and someone that is inexperienced represents the peace and chaos in a war. The guns were representations of getting ready to go to war; bees attacking the garden symbolized the war in a sense, the life of recruits and the life of the