My Last Duchess

Browning‘s ‘My Last Duchess’ , and Edgar Allen Poe‘s ‘The Raven’ . I will discuss the way the forms of the poems and how their different structures, one being written in verse and the other in dramatic monologue, effect the reader’s interpretation, lead to an unreliable narrator. I will discuss the use of rhyme and rhythm, and also how the speaker’s psyche and strong emotions, like anger and jealousy in ‘My Last Duchess’ and madness in ‘The Raven’ alter the speaker’s reliability. ‘My Last…

example, in “My Last Duchess” the narrator “...gives commands…” (Browning 45) to his duchess in order stop her from stop smiling, and being easily appeased. Again, this man treats his duchess like a toy: he does not like that she is easily appeased by others-- as if he ought to be treated specially-- and so he gets angry at his “toy.” She is a toy, an object, that can be replaced at any time. Similarly, in “Porphyria’s Lover,” Porphyria is also seen as an object.…

at every period of his career, and is the most ambitious and successful writer of the dramatic monologue in English.” (Drew) Two of his more famous works have gained renown because they are controversial in nature are titled My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover. My Last Duchess is a monologue spoken by a rich man to the agent of the father of the woman he wishes to marry. This monologue is unique in that it is heavily implied that the speaker murdered his previous wife. Porphyria’s Lover is a…

"My Last Duchess" explicitly portrays the emotions and thoughts of the Duke of Ferrara. As it is set in a private art gallery in the palace of the Duke of Ferrara and depicts a devastating self-portrait of royalty that exhibits more of the Duke's personality than Ferrara intends. The poem also reveals the inner thoughts of the Duke Of Ferrara through the form of monologue. In the poem there are elements of jealousy as the portrait of the Duchess was made by Fra Pandolf; a monk who emphasises…

In Robert Downing’s poem “My Last Duchess” the author uses representational figurative language, two-toned diction, uninterrupted, repetitive structure, and imagery that tells a story of a duke and his relationship with a duchess. The poem communicates an attitude of resentment, distaste and bitterness which leads to a theme of sometimes one's own actions of holding oneself on a pedestal, can negatively effect and blur one’s opinions or views of someone else. The authors use of figurative…

Browning 's “My Last Duchess”, and Shelley 's “Ozymandias”. In “Sonnet 18” meter is used to hint at the true nature of the author 's intentions in the beginning and then later to emphasize this nature as it appears more prominently. Additionally, in “My Last Duchess” a similar use of meter occurs as the story begins with meter being used to show character traits before they are more obviously displayed by the Duke, then later to emphasize these traits in his more revealing lines. At last, the…

The title “My Last Duchess” starts with a possessive pronoun “my”, it shows men domination. Robert in this poem wants to draw the attention to women struggling at the Victorian era. Where the society was a patriarchy domination. Men play the major role while women only stay at home to offer what her husband and children need. women at that time were treated as an object. The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara, a powerful man who his family run Ferrara for many years. The poem started when the duke…

often takes the form of dramatic monologue to show the differences between men’s motivations and women’s. In Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’, an authoritative and rich Duke is made to feel powerless as a result of his wife’s misplaced affections. The favourable qualities of his wife, such as her kindness and gratitude, are interpreted by the duke as offences, “as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift”, implying possessiveness and unruly emotions such as…

Ways the texts My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover relate. Texts that are written by the same author may typically be about the same things or they may be related in some way. This goes for the two stories that this essay is written about. In Robert Browning’s texts Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess there are many ways that these two stories compare and contrast to each other. Firstly, we will talk about the women and typically how they are both the same, but different. The…

itself and is only given meaning and power when supported by ones ideologies. Ideologies, which are overvalued, that are project onto the world from ones perspective does not guarantee that that will be the way in which the world functions. In “My Last Duchess”(1842) by Robert Browning the Duke of introduces a silent emissary to his former wife by showing her a picture he has of her, hidden by curtains. The Dukes explains the characteristics of his wife, saying that she…