death in the AQA anthology

My Last Duchess
1. Death is a simple solution for the Duke
  1. the duchess does not irritate him now
    1. She is now an artwork he can boast of and control
      1. 'None puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I'
      2. 'Fr Pandolf'
    2. 'ranked my nine-hindred years old name with anybody's gigt'
  2. 'I gave commands; all smiles stopped together
  3. cold
    1. psychopathic?
      1. cruel?
      2. control and now she pleases him
    2. amoral
The River God
1. he drowns women
2. 'I like the people that bathe in me, especially women'
  1. sexual
    1. feels psychopathic?
3. enjoys the deaths
  1. 'they take a long time drowning'
    1. 'spirit of clowning'
Portrait of a Deaf Man
1. graphic portrayal of death
  1. 'maggots in his eyes'
2. remembers his father
  1. sweet personal memories
    1. 'he took me on long silent walks'
    2. 'he knew the name of every bird'
    3. counteracts what is happening to his father's body
3. furious with God
  1. 'You ask me to believe....I only see decay'
  2. indignity of decay
    1. contrasts with a beautiful life
      1. his father had a sensory engagement with the world
      2. contrast of jaunty rhythm
        nursery rhyme
  3. father was not ready to die
    1. 'but least of all he liked..Highgate Hill
Brendon Gallacher
1. imaginary friend
  1. disappears in an instant when mum finds out the facts
    1. 'He died then my Brendon Gallacher'
    2. grieves for him still

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