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My Last Duchess
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- 1What is the time and place?16th century in Ferrara
- 2What is the POV?It is a dramatic monologue therefor its 1st person making it a bais view.
- 3What is the ideology of the poem?Browning is outlining and highlighting how badly women were miss-treated- " that is my last duchess painted on the wall"
- 4What is the characterisation of the poem?The husband is possessive and controlling." my last duchess on the wall" and he is also a powerful and respected man. " as if she ranked my gift of a 900 year old name with anybody's gift"
- 5what is the destination of the poem?the poem has a secret listener who could be his new wife's father so he tried to explain that he wasn't the only bad person in the relationship she was sinful as well- "for calling up that spot of joy"
- 6What is the context of the poem?The fact that she may have been unfaithful could be the reason why she is dead and why the duke is explaining him self- "or blush, at least she thanked men- good, but somehow- I do not know"
- 7What is the setting of the poem?They are at a gathering and to put an end to the conversation he states " we'll meet company below"
- 8What is the form of the poem?it comprises rhyming pentameter lines. the lines don't employ end-stops; rather they use enjambment. Consequently rhymes do not create a sense of closure but rather remains subtle drive behind the dukes speech.
- 9historical background of the poem?poem harbours much significance: the Italian Renaissance held a particular fascination for browning and he represented the flowering of the aesthetic and the human alongside the religious and the moral which allows brown to explore sex violence ad aesthetics- the lushness of the language belies the fact that the duchess was punished for her actions.
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- A level English Lit (Browning Poems) FlashCards sobre My Last Duchess, criado por chloe oconnor em 26-04-2015.
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