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My Last Duchess -
Robert Browning
- 'Sir' - Pronoun, direct address
- 'Her looks went everywhere' -
Not interested in him, other men
- Dramatic momnologue
- 16th century marriages,
arranged, money, class
- 'Last' - Adjective, more than one,
what happened to one before?
- 'As if she were alive' - Simile, dead?
- Inspired by Shelley
- Based on Duke Alfonso
II, the Duke of Ferrara
- 'Fra Fandolf's hands worked
busily' - On painting, on her
- 'Will't please you sit and look at her?' -
Rhetorical question, audience, another
man to look at her
- 'Durst' - Verb, dare to look at her
- 'None puts by the curtain I have
drawn for you, but I' - Power
over her, who can see her, his
- '!' - Anger, volume in voice
- 'Half-flush that dies along her throat' - Strangled,
dead, paint can't reproduce beauty
- 'Not the first' - Looked
at by many men
- '? -' - Punctuation, breaks, natural
speech, conversational, pretending
- 'I call that piece a wonder, now' -
Punctuation before 'Now' can control
painting, not her, fine art, miss her now,
not when alive
- Ran away to marry in Italy, moved
to London after wife's death
- 'Not her husband [...] called that
spot of joy into the Duchess' -
Paranoid, unfaithful, someone else
- 'Cherries some officious fool broke
in the orchard for her' - Equally
happy with everything, jealous
- 'Too soon made glad, too easily impressed'
- Flirty, easy, unexperienced, young
- 'Ranked my gift of a nine-hundred year old name with
anybody's gift' - Context, doesn't understand,
appreciate, above others, compared to other men
- 'Stoop' - Verb,
lower his name if
people found out
- 'I gave commands'
- Verb, power, had
her killed
- 'Even had you skill' -
Does have skill, lying
- 'She thanked men, - good! but
thanked somehow - I know not' -
Does know, sexually
- 'Let herself be lessoned'
- Taught a lesson, is she
allowed it, admitted
- 'Made excuses' - Noun, lied, denied
- 'Who passed without much the same
smile' - Gave everyone same smile,
treated everyone the same as him
- 'All smiles stopped together' - If he
can't be happy/have her, no one can
- 'Will't please you rise?' - Acting as if
nothing's been said, nothing
happened, inflicting fear
- 'Dowry will be disallowed' -
Happy with dowry, sound
desperate
- 'Nay' - Envoy tries to leave
- 'Notice Neptune' though, taming a sea-horse' -
Symbolic, nouns, power over her, warning
- 'Cast in bronze for me!'
- Money, power, wealth
- 'Rarity' - Noun, rare, expensive