Both poems “Hazel tells LaVerne” by Katharyn Hown Machan and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning uses unique ways to reveal the speakers. The speakers of each poem reveal something about themselves as they try to narrate a story. The speaker of the “Hazel tells LaVerne” story repeats the line “me a princess‚” indicating that her bluster is just a front for her dreams. The word choice and humorous tone of Machan’s story also reveal much about Hazel’s personality and position. The ways she uses
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"My Last Duchess" Robert Browning’s poem "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue‚ a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker‚ we the reader must wonder carefully what the Duke is telling us‚ and we often have to read between the lines in order to keep an objective perspective on the what is happening in the poem. This paper will discuss how the use of the dramatic monologue makes the subject (the Duke) tell
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Question : What is a dramatic monologue? Which of the two‚ in your opinion‚ is the stronger dramatic monologue in Tennyson’s “Ulysses” or Browning’s “My Last Duchess”? Answer : Traditionally dramatic monologue is a lyrical poem in the form of speech spoken by a single man. It is dramatic because it begins abruptly and in the development of its thought it takes several sudden turns which impart dramatic dimension to the poem. In a dramatic monologue the single speaker reveals his thoughts in the
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“Andrea Del Sarto” and “My Last Duchess” It is interesting how to poems from the same author can present the same themes in such different ways. We will be comparing‚ Browning’s “Andrea Del Sarto” and “My Last Duchess”. There are two topics that have important roles in both poems; these are art and the role of woman. Browning shows us women in very different roles in these two poems. He also presents art in both poems from different points of view. In “My Last Duchess” women’s role is of a free
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the ways Browning tells the story in My Last Duchess The story focuses on the key events of the painting‚ the marriage between the Duke and the past Duchess‚ the possible murder of the Duchess and the yet to be new wife. The story being told is of the relationship between the Duke and former Duchess. Browning adopts numerous narrative techniques. Browning uses the form of a dramatic monologue to help the story progress. For instance ’That’s my Last Duchess’ shows that there is one speculator
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Write About The Ways Browning Tells The Story- My Last Duchess Immediately Browning titles the story with a hint that suggests the story will describe ownership of one of many Duchess’. It also suggests through the name ’Duchess’ that it is coming from a royal background rather than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker
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1953. So it could be the case that in the end Dylan Thomas did go gentle into that good night‚ or maybe it was his own way to rage against the dying of the light. In My Last Duchess‚ the vulnerability and fragility of life is shown through the monologue of an unhinged Duke. He is speaking to a Count’s servant about his last Duchess‚ as he is planning to marry the Count’s daughter. The poem uses subtle foreboding and eloquent speech to portray the Duke’s obsessive madness. The Duke begins talking
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"The Flea" who haunts "My Last Duchess" History has blessed the English language with many great romanticists; they were men and sometimes woman who had an affinity for describing the glories of love. Yet in the midst of such uninhibited amorousness‚ they were a select few who chose to write about the seamier side of romance. It was these works which perhaps best represented the complexities of the male-female relationships of the time. Although written more than two hundred years apart‚ both "The
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My Last Duchess The relationship between the Duke and Duchess in the poem My Last Duchess is very possessive. The Duke in the poem‚ frequently objectifies his late wife by referring to her as ‘my last duchess’. The use of the word ‘my’ suggests that it is personal to him and he has possession over her as she belongs to him. It also suggests that the relationship was very singular and for his benefit only as it was his wife and therefore his relationship. This reveals that the couple’s relationship
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Written in 1842 by Robert Browning‚ "My Last Duchess" is the dramatic monologue of the duke of Ferrara who is negotiating his second marriage through an agent of the count of Tyrol on the grand staircase of the ducal palace at Ferrara in northern Italy. Executing the elements of a dramatic monologue‚ the duke reveals his situation and much more than he intends to the both the agent and the reader. Using iambic pentameter AABB couplets Robert Browning reveals the horrifying story of the murder of
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