My Last Duchess Questions
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 the marriage, and throughout the walkthrough he shows what type of wife he likes and how he treats them.
5. It is structured with iambic pentameter and it is said to be a dramatic lyric because of the fictional characters who act out of the scene.
6. The theme is that in a relationship men have the power and they control every aspect of it and that when a little chance appears to expand the power base, one should take it.
7. It takes place in the art gallery of the Duke, and the time is unknown.
8. Statue of Neptune is an allusion to the roman god of the sea. It shares the idea that the Duke will be taming the wife, and will always be possessive because the statue of Neptune, the roman god is taming a seahorse.
9. The tone of the poem is relaxing; as he wants to get a yes from the father by showing his art it is achieved because of the way they have so conflict while walking through the gallery.
10. A predominant image I saw was the Duke being fancy and showing off he possesses and the guest just wondering around the place because he has never seen something as big as that.
11. The Duke emphasizes how many things have the spot of joy in his drawings to personify that her last Duchess is happy to a variety of things such as her marriage, her dinner, the weather, anything at all.
12. A symbol could be smile because the Duchess bestows pleased smiles on anyone and anything that brings a little bit of joy into her life.
13. There is use of
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 the marriage, and throughout the walkthrough he shows what type of wife he likes and how he treats them.
5. It is structured with iambic pentameter and it is said to be a dramatic lyric because of the fictional characters who act out of the scene.
6. The theme is that in a relationship men have the power and they control every aspect of it and that when a little chance appears to expand the power base, one should take it.
7. It takes place in the art gallery of the Duke, and the time is unknown.
8. Statue of Neptune is an allusion to the roman god of the sea. It shares the idea that the Duke will be taming the wife, and will always be possessive because the statue of Neptune, the roman god is taming a seahorse.
9. The tone of the poem is relaxing; as he wants to get a yes from the father by showing his art it is achieved because of the way they have so conflict while walking through the gallery.
10. A predominant image I saw was the Duke being fancy and showing off he possesses and the guest just wondering around the place because he has never seen something as big as that.
11. The Duke emphasizes how many things have the spot of joy in his drawings to personify that her last Duchess is happy to a variety of things such as her marriage, her dinner, the weather, anything at all.
12. A symbol could be smile because the Duchess bestows pleased smiles on anyone and anything that brings a little bit of joy into her life.
13. There is use of