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    My Last Duchess Essay

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    Robert Brownings poem My Last Duchess‚ is a great poem about a very colorful character and his trials with jealously‚ control‚ and marriage. Throughout the poem the reader is able to gather that it is about a Duke who is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Dukes next marriage. As the Duke is entertaining the emissary‚ the he takes the opportunity to show a portrait of his late wife‚ or as the poem titles says his last duchess. The Duke upon showing the portrait‚ almost immediately

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    Compare  Last and Lover (An Analysis of Robert Browning’s Poems)     Have you ever read two different things and connected them together in a type of way? If so‚ that is exactly what we were supposed to do when it came to Robert Browning’s works. In “An Analysis of Two Poems”‚ by E.E Cummings he describes how two poems can be completely different‚ yet still connect to each other. This goes along with the way that we are looking at the two Browning poems.  In the poem “My Last Duchess”‚ the speaker

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    My Last Duchess Analysis

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    In Robert Browning ’s "My Last Duchess‚" a portrait of the egocentric and power loving Duke of Ferrara is painted for us. Although the duke ’s monologue appears on the surface to be about his late wife‚ a close reading will show that the mention of his last duchess is merely a side note in his self-important speech. Browning uses the dramatic monologue form very skillfully to show us the controlling‚ jealous‚ and arrogant traits the duke possessed without ever mentioning them explicitly. The

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    Tone Of My Last Duchess

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    The famous "My Last Duchess"‚ the Duke of Earl always messenger introduction portrait of his late wife‚ in his conversation‚ we can understand the attitude of the Duke‚ Browning from the perspective of a third party to explain their feelings‚ so People and authors and readers evocative‚ poet monologue tone so that people imagine in the mind of a virtual audience‚ and let the reader from the characters theatrical monologue reasoning and imagination‚ try to figure out the author’s point of view. This

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    My Last Duchess’ and ‘Things’ are both poems differing incredibly in length and structure‚ however they share and underlying sinister tone‚ conveyed by the eerie imagery both poets choose to write about.
 In Robert Browning’s poem‚ ‘My Last Duchess’‚ the first major source of imagery we encounter is the detail about the portrait of the Duchess on the wall‚ and the fictional author‚ Fra Pandolf. Boasting about the painting on the wall‚ the Duke adopts a cold and dispassionate tone when talking

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    My Last Duchess Notes

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    MY LAST DUCHESS: Narrative perspective/voices: first person narrator‚ aristocrat‚ superior and detached‚ clear sense of the addressee who the duke thinks is inferior‚ the Duke talks about the duchess but never quotes her words‚ the duke a performer who mimics the voices of others‚ chilling sinister tone‚ etc. Setting: the duke of Ferrara’s palace‚ upstairs in the gallery‚ 16th century setting‚ etc. Dramatic monologue‚ written in iambic pentameters‚ reads like blank verse in a drama/contains

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    Discuss My Last Duchess as an example of a well constructed dramatic monologue. Robert Browning used the poetic device of the dramatic monologue in his poem "My Last Duchess."  One advantage of using this device is that it allows the speaker’s own words to reveal‚ celebrate‚ or‚ in this case‚ condemn his behavior.  The speaker in "My Last Duchess" is the Duke‚ loosely based on the historical figure‚ the Duke of Ferrara whose own young wife died under mysterious circumstances. Browning writes the

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    Tecca Zimmerman Lit and Society Professor Peresie 4/10/12 The Worth of My Last Duchess Worthwhile literature has four basic elements‚ or characteristics that help to qualify a work as a worthwhile piece of literature. The four characteristics that help determine a piece of literature to be worthy of reading and studying are that it creates a lasting impression‚ it stretches the reader’s imagination‚ it is an aesthetically pleasing experience‚ and finally‚ it communicates across cultural

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    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

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    Katie Parham Dr. Rosenbaum ENGL 1050H 20 February 2012 Villain or Aesthete-Judgment or Sympathy The speaker can be seen as both a villain and lover of great art‚ but which is his true identity? In “My Last Duchess”‚ the duke’s deplorable wickedness makes the split between moral judgment and our actual feeling for him especially apparent. The effect created by the tension between sympathy and judgment is a striking characteristic of dramatic monologues. Throughout the poem‚ the Duke’s poise and

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