My Last Duchess 1. The speaker of the poem is the Duke of Ferrara who is indeed a very strict individual and demanding and always wants to be pleased. 2. He is speaking to the father of the woman that he wants to marry. The appropriate audience would be the family of the woman. 3. The word persona is applicable because it is interpreted in first person‚ Duke Ferrara’s perspective. 4. The dramatic situation is when the Duke is negotiating his art gallery in order for the father to agree on
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Although they are famous works by two different famous poets‚ "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson share many similarities. Both poems are examples of dramatic monologues‚ in that they consist entirely of the speech of the main character. As a result they both have very few stanzas. "My Last Duchess" is set in Italy during the Renaissance period. In this poem the Duke is talking to his prospective father-in-law’s servant about a painting of his former wife. Ulysses
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Murder... mystery... intrigue... All describe Robert Browning’s poem‚ "My Last Duchess." From the speakers’s indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader might easily think that the speaker committed a vengeful crime out of jealousy. His flowery speech confuses and disguises any possible motives‚ however‚ and the mystery is left unsolved. Based on the poem’s style‚ structure‚ and historical references‚ it becomes evident that even if the speaker did not directly kill his
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Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and Daniel Webster dominated national politics from the end of the War of 1812 until their deaths in the early 1850s. Although none were ever President‚ they had a huge impact in Congress. Their impact outweighed the impact of any of the presidents of that era‚ with the exception of Andrew Jackson. There was one issue effecting the nation throughout their time in power — slavery. They were all successful in keeping peace in America by forging a series of compromises.
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HISTORY OF WEBSTER UNIVERSITY The history of Webster University goes back to 1915 when it was founded by the Sisters of Loretto on November 1‚ 1915 in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. The school was originally named Loretto College after the Catholic religious organization which was founded in 1812. It was one of the first Catholic women colleges west of the Mississippi River. The organization wanted to give opportunity to the more unfortunate women to attend a school during a time when higher education
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Daniel Webster and the Devil Daniel Webster and the Devil is a book describing the encounter that Daniel Webster had with the Devil. In the beginning of the story it describes Daniel Webster as dead and describes what type of man he was when he was alive. Then the story goes to another character named Jabez Stone. Jabez Stone was an unlucky farmer and the fourth paragraph describes that. After the fourth paragraph there is a flash back. It goes back to a time when Daniel Webster was still
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Webster‚ Leslie. “Archaeology and Beowulf.” Beowulf: A Verse Translation Ed. Daniel Donoghue. New York: w.w. Norton and Co.‚ 2002. 212-23. print. Annotated Bibliography In Leslie Webster’s essay “Archaeology and Beowulf‚” Webster starts the paper off by talking about how the Old English translation of Beowulf has actually caused a lot of misunderstanding because of everyone’s contemporary perceptions of the way it was in the past. She then goes on to talk about the warrior culture‚ which she
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However‚ things start to change when Katherine sent for Derek and he surprised the two of them by visiting her in London. Will they get their marriage back on track and realize that they do love each other? [$11] 10. The Reluctant Duchess by Sharon Cullen The Reluctant Duchess mixes romance and murder in a tale that involves a shy lady and a hot-headed duke. Lady Sara’s cousin gets murdered and now it seems like she’s the next target‚ and this forces her to get the help of Gabriel‚ the Duke of Rossmoyne
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The Devil Both Tom walker and daniel webster had devil type figures in there stories Guarded the treasure of the pirate named kid and the other one was a devil named scratched Jabez stone was just the same as tom walker they both sold there soul to the devil also known as scratch they both hated there life so they decided to change it for the better King philip and governor dale were sorta the same they were both chiefs governor dale was chief at a naval station and king philip was wampanoag chief
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Robert Browning is known as the Master of Psychological dramatic monologue. In "My last Duchess" the reader only hears the Duke’s story whose perverse point of view throws false accusations towards his recently deceased wife. What the reader knows about the characters is limited‚ so he must piece together the story on his own. The story the duke thinks he tells‚ of an unfaithful wife who offended his dignity‚ and the story he really tells‚ of jealousy and possessive love that leads to murder‚ engages
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