Essays Tagged: "My Last Duchess"
Analysis of Robert Brownings The Last Duchess. Provides a roughly line by line anaylsis of the poem. A good essay, needs little revision.
Analysis of Robert Browning's My Last DuchessEnglish 110.6 (12)23 October 2002My Last Duchess is one of the more recognized poems ... 812 and died in 1889. He is remembered today through the inspiring words of this dramatic monologue My Last Duchess.The setting of this poem is presumably in the Italian Renaissance period, specifical ... Together down, Sir!" (Lines 53 and 54)The speaker and narrator of the poem is the Duke of Ferrara. My Last Duchess is a conversation between the Duke and a servant of a Count. As the monologue opens, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
This essay was about the poetic devices which Robert Browning used to enhance the haunting tone in his dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess."
Robert Browning sets the tone of "My Last Duchess," by using three significant poetic techniques, one of which is imagery. Browning us ... hich possibly could have led to the Duchess' demise. Robert Browning is able to achieve a haunting, mysterious, and eerie tone in "My Last Duchess," by using imagery, precise diction, and symbolism.Th ... ortrait, but also the darkness of the Duke's life. The Duke begins his soliloquy by saying, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive," (1-2) already the reader is hi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
A Comparison of John Donne's "The Flea" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".
"The Flea" who haunts "My Last Duchess"History has blessed the English language with many great romanticists; they were men ... of the time. Although written more than two hundred years apart, both "The Flea" by John Donne and "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, examine the selfishness and lustful ambitions which often hampe ... s of the cheesy pick-up line.Much like the Narrator in "The Flea", The Duke from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a man whose love is hardly pure because it is fueled mostly by greed and shallow ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Dover Beach" and "My Last Duchess" by Arnold.
My analysis of the setting in My Last Duchess and Dover Beach At first glance the setting of a poem ... e characters. Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold use the setting to expose their character traits. "My Last Duchess" and "Dover Beach," respectively, portray the weaknesses of the characters using ele ... aracters using elements from the setting. The text, page 629 and 630, tells us that the setting in "My Last Duchess" displays a valuable art form that exposes his greed and cruelty. "Dover Beach" demo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"My Last Duchess" By Robert Browning
Robert Browning is known as the Master of Psychological dramatic monologue. In "My last Duchess" the reader only hears the Duke's story whose perverse point of view throws false ac ... e's perception of conflict is severely distorted (Long 4).Michael G. Miller's essay "Browning's 'My Last Duchess'" discusses how the Duke unknowingly reveals his enormous ego as he describes the pa ... n her blush is attributed to Fra Pandolf's remarks. When the painter says, "Her mantle laps / Over my lady's wrist too much,"(16-17) he is simply giving the duchess posing instructions. This dialogu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess"
Analysis of Robert Browning's My Last DuchessRobert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess is a poem that represents and holds true to m ... looks went everywhere". He also cannot tolerate that "she thanked men... Somehow...as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name, With anybody's gift" or that she smiled whenever he "passe ... n its allocation of societal control, even though it did put men like the Duke in power.A poem like My Last Duchess calculatedly engages its readers on a psychological level because they only hear the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
How does Browning Shape our Reaction To The Duke in His Dramatic Monologue 'My Last Duchess'?
How does Browning shape our reaction to the Duke in 'My Last Duchess'?Our initial reaction to the Duke is formed before we've even finished reading the s ... uke is formed before we've even finished reading the second line of the poem. The Duke says:'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive...'In this line we first get a sens ... as 'his last Duchess', but by her name. We also get a hint of the Duke's possessiveness - he says 'my last Duchess'. As well as this we are told subtly that he's moving on to his next wife - 'my last ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Robert Browning's poem "MY LAST DUCHESS".
rating his own tale of possessiveness, jealousy, and murder, the husband in Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" unintentionally justifies his dead wife's actions.The husband in Browning's poem co ... e men.Through possessiveness, jealousy, and a lack of trust, the husband in Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," never thoroughly justifies his actions for murdering his wife. His lack for not un ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"My Last Duchess": Paragon and Paregon.
Browning's "My Last Duchess": Paragon and ParegonBrowning's "My Last Duchess": Paragon and ParegonThere ... fting between the center and the border of some artistic design. Nevertheless, as many readings of "My Last Duchess" show, "this most dramatically paragonal of all ekphrastic poems" (Heffernan 144) un ... r appraising readers, who "turn" (9, 13), or change, to Browning or his personae. Our cognition of "My Last Duchess" is parergonal (i.e., framed and framing), like the Duke of Ferrara's intention to f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess.
Porphyria's Lover and My Last DuchessCompare the two poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning. W ... tury. In 1842, he published 'Dramatic Lyrics' which included the two poems 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess'. In 'Porphyria's Lover' Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twist ... In this essay, 'Porphyria's Lover' will be compared to Robert Browning's other dramatic monologue, 'My Last Duchess', where an Italian aristocrat reveals his cruelty to his late wife whilst showing of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Analyse the Different Forms of Power Presented in "My Last Duchess", "A Woman to Her Lover" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
e Dame Sans Merci" the female displays supernatural power and dominance over a knight, the Duke in "My Last Duchess" desires psychological power over his DuchessThe poem "My Last Duchess" is a dramati ... be able to exhibit her and 'show her off' and enforce psychological power over.The Duke calls her "My Last Duchess"; here the use of the possessive pronoun indicates to the reader how he feels his wi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" are two poems that are dramatic monologues that depict a di ... seem to be self serving people that don't want love, but want the control and power.The duke in "My Last Duchess" and the lover in "Porphyria's Lover" express different attitudes in each poem, even ... ion of this poem, gives the reader the impression that the speaker is out of touch with reality."My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" are poems that seem as if it were a story of unrequited lov ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Compare and contrast "My last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" By Robert Browning.
Title: - Compare and contrast "My last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" By Robert Browning.Robert Browning was born on May7, 1812, ... ing died on the same day that his final volume of verse, Asolando, was published, in 1889.Murder... mystery... intrigue... All describe Robert Browning'spoem, "My Last Duchess." From the speaker's ind ... re of this poem play a important role in theeffect of the poem. As is typical of Browning's poems, "My LastDuchess" is written as a dramatic monologue: one speaker relates the entire poem as if to ano ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
In this essay, I would like to discuss one of Robert Browning's better known poems, "My Last Duchess." While some readers may be put off by Browning's language which now seems archaic, ... ceased Duchess with the Count's envoy who is invited to sit in order to listen to her tale ("That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive"). "That's" is a well chosen wor ... possibly saying to her that her cloak covered too much of her pretty wrist ("Her mantle laps / Over my Lady's wrist too much"). In this way, the artist was able to capture the Duchess' captivating smi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"
is a dramatic monologue of sorts, though different from Browning's most famous dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess." In contrast to "My Last Duchess" in which the Duke regales a Count's envoy with ta ... ly and disturbingly revealed through his words.The poem begins with an apt personification of a stormy night which serves as the backdrop to the speaker's own disquieting thoughts ("The rain set early ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The use of the Dramatic monologue in the Last Duchess
"My Last Duchess"Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the forma ... the Duke.The style and structure of this poem plays a significant role in the effect of the poem. "My Last Duchess" is written as a dramatic monologue: one speaker relates the entire poem as if to an ... mat. Yet, according to William Phelps, the rime scheme evident in Pope is scarcely heard at all in "My Last Duchess." Phelps writes that the effect of this scheme is so muffled and concealed that the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Analysis On The Narrator In Browning's "Last Duchess"
By: Lee A. ZitoThe narrator in "My Last Duchess" immediately relieves his wife is dead, speaking as if to the reader directly. Being ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
'Dramatic monologue between My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover?' - Was one mark off 100% on this one
ow far do you agree with this statement in terms of the two Robert Browning poems you are studying: My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover?'In this essay I will attempt to compare and contrast Browning ... saying by reading between what he actually does say.Porphyria's Lover is a monologue spoken by the mysterious 'Lover'. It is about a possessive lover who kills the woman he loves so that her love for ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
My last duchess (analysis)
My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, which takes place in the Italian renaissance and the perso ... and his gestures in the same manner made him feel undervalued and indifferent."as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift".He is filled with family pride an ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Comparison of: 'My Last Duchess' and 'Tombs of Westminster Abbey'
Both 'My Last Duchess' and 'Tombs of Westminster Abbey' are about death. One is mostly about the character ... ys, like the way the poems doesn't use stanzas and the way they are not regular, typical poems. In 'My Last Duchess', the poet takes on a persona and a monologue and yet, the poem falls under many pos ... s for his wife. Although the poem shares no sign of sadness, it suggests to me as a reader, that in my own view of the persona he takes on, he seems cynical and arrogant and does not in the least bit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry