My Last Duchess

‘’My last duchess’’ by Robert Browning is a poem that explores many themes, themes that were regarded as rather unusual in a time like the Victorian age . Many critics spoke highly of Browning’s techniques; he used diction, rhythm and symbol. Those were really evident in most of his dramatic monologues. According to the Victorian web, ‘’the last duchess’’ delves into the theme of marriage and relationships, since the dramatic monologue revolves around a painting of his previous wife and is…

“The Cry of the Children” and Robert’s “My Last Duchess.” Robert uses dramatic monologue in “My Last Duchess” to invoke self-reflection about notions of nobility,ownership and objectification of women. The reader experiences life through a “noble” man (hereafter…

of a Duchess and Porphyria (A story about the life of two women and how they died.) “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration”(Swift). Jealousy ruins a lot of relationships, with loved ones, friends, and your significant other. In the stories, My Last…

they lived in. Most of Robert Browning’s works are very disturbing. He uses these disturbing scenes to directly attack the male patriarchy back in his time. Browning’s two poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, calls into question the idea of the treatment of women in the Victorian era. In both poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning writes two similar tragic and disturbing stories. Both poems contain men who are mentally disturbed as well as two women they…

and expose significant depts. of the speaker temperament attitude and values. an excellent example is Robert Browning’s poem entitled “My Last Duchess” My initial response to the poem was I was confused. The written languages Style was not easy to read. When I read the poem a second time Than I was able to understand the content, I remembered that a Duchess is a wife a Duke. The Duke seemed to be pointing out a picture to a person that was not named. The Duke then began to reminisce…

elements which thematically link Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and Prospice: love, marriage and death. Both poems follow the aftermath of a marriage brought to an end by the death of the wife. In order to comprehend the psyches of the husbands and the manners in which they cope with their partners deaths, a close analysis of their dramatic monologues is required, for it may reveal discrepancies between their words and thoughts. My Last Duchess follows a duke, implied to be the duke of…

Deadly Dudes (A Literary Comparison of Robert Browning’s Texts My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” (Shakespeare). Most people have fallen in love at least once in their lives. I too fall in this category. Just like any Disney movie that you watch, people fall in love with each other, and they get married and live happily ever after right? Wrong! In real life, there are some strange things that can happen,…

The Dutch and His Control In the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, Browning uses a particular imagery to create an image in the readers mind, to create a more imaginative and mysterious read. His style makes this poem easy to read and understand, but he also doesn’t come straight out with things so that you have room to think and create your own scene. Throughout the poem, Browning uses diction to support imagery. For example, when Browning writes, “I gave commands; Then all smiles…

I will be drawing the similarities and differences between ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by John Keats and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and how these similarities and differences affect the portrayal of relationships in the poems. There is a lot of history utilised in both poems. At the time Robert Browning wrote ‘My Last Duchess’, there was a large influence in Italy mainly over possessions and status. The story of the Borgias family, who paid people to kill those that they didn’t like…

Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess” decries the inhibition of individual rights which resulted from the Victorian preoccupation with social status and wealth. Victorian social hierarchy demonstrates the social divisions of people based on their occupation and birthright, in a pre-defined specific ladder. The ekphrastic poem elucidates the possessive and cynical nature of the Duke, who objectifies the Duchess in a painting, “that piece a wonder, now”, revealing both the…