The Duke and the Duchess Victoria Overton Introduction to Literature Dr. Elliott-White June 4‚ 2012 The Duke and the Duchess Murder‚ mystery and intrigue can all be used to describe Robert Browning ’s poem‚ "My Last Duchess." From the speakers ’ indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader could easily think that the speaker committed a vengeful crime out of jealousy. His elaborate speech confuses and disguises any possible motives‚ and the mystery is left unsolved. Even if he did
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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Compare the central characters in ‘Medusa’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ and Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ are two entirely different poems in many respects. Written in entirely different eras‚ some would say that they are as opposite as poetry could be. However‚ their central characters have some remarkable similarities that strike a chord with the reader and represent a common theme. In each of the poems‚ both Medusa and the Duke of Ferrara represent the fickleness
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