My Last Duchess Essay

In “My Last Duchess,” The poet is clearly unhappy with his last Duchess, the tone is wheedling, reproachful admiration of the actual portrait of the woman, whom he adores—as art. The words, “MY last”, implicate that this is not the only duchess he had. If there were only one, he might have said, “My first’ duchess” He is not interested in mourning his previous wife, but extolling the beauty of the painting of her--while courting a new one. He explains that she was more than delighted to smile at

My Last Duchess is a poem but more of a monologue whose poet is Robert Browning. The poem presents to us probably a Duke who seems to show off the wife’s portrait to an addressee who is a visitor in his house. When the Duke talks to the visitor, he makes reference to the portrait of her Duchess framed on the wall and refers to her as the last one. The Duchess is late, “Looking as if she were alive” (Browning, 2). As I had stated in the opening sentence, the poem is just a monologue since it involves

In “My Last Duchess” Browning made it so that the narrator branded his wife with the stigma of being a “loose” women, making it so that she was seen as impure and tainted to all those around them (fgcu.edu). Using an AABB rhyme scheme to make the poem flow more rhythmically Browning opens the poem up with the Duke telling the story of his last duchess who was to impure and loose to be his wife as he states, “Sir, ’twas not/Her husband’s presence only, called that spot/Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek”

relevant time to critique the prevalence of domestic violence. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue My Last Duchess was written as an appraisal of the cruelty of men and the sub-human treatment of women in the Victorian period as well as criticising the patriarchy. But why, nearly two centuries later, are we revisiting this poem? Browning uses his poetry, specifically works like My Last Duchess to explore the dark, rather evil side of the human condition – an ever relevant topic to suit a contemporary

Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” depicts the typical Renaissance man and his peculiarities such as his jealousy and severity as a husband, but also his love for money and art. This essay seeks to demonstrate that ‘love’, ‘marriage’ and ‘death’ are all occurring themes that stand by the principals of this poem. Prior to the beginning of the poem, the word ‘Ferrara’ is thoughtfully placed by the poet in order to assert not only the location, but also the ambience of “My Last Duchess”. Set in Renaissance

The poems entitled My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell both discussed men speaking with or about their lovers. In both poems the speakers view their loves as amazing, beautiful creatures, but they each have some type of issue with their partner. Although the outcomes were different, the speakers in To His Coy Mistress and My Last Duchess proved that they continued to have love for their lovers. In My Last Duchess, Browning uses proper, regal, and vivid language

‘My Last Duchess” in itself is a Victorian reflection on Renaissance Italy. It explores societal schemas which permeated both aristocratic societies extensively, such as societal entitlement and a narcissistic and oppressive attitude. Browning takes this to a deeper level by exploring these temperaments in the speaker; the Duke of Ferrara. This is achieved through the use of structure and syntax to provide insight into the psyche of the speaker by insinuating and presenting the real ideology of the

analysis of Robert Brownings “My Last Duchess” that it accordingly “portrays all the ruthlessness, the cynicism, the contempt for human life, the lust for power, and the worldliness that the nineteenth-century Protestant associated with the Italian Renaissance.” (223) Although the duke portrays himself to be a prideful, eloquent, person who is impassioned by art, we soon learn about his jealous and possessive nature concealed behind(in?) his character. “My Last Duchess”, a dramatic monologue written

literary techniques to clearly convey the personalities of their speakers. In “My Last Duchess”, Robert Browning uses point of view, diction, and imagery to achieve a powerful effect, underlining the attitude and personality of the Duke.            In a dramatic monologue, character development is based on what the speaker says, and how he says it. In “My Last Duchess”, the speaker of the monologue addresses a fictional audience, and the reader is

The quote from the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning describes the part toward the end where the Duke is talking to someone about what led to the death of his wife. Evidence supported by the quote itself, specifically the line “Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands: / Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands/ As if alive” (45-47), leads us to the conclusion that jealousy and arrogance got the best of the Duke, which made him give the orders to have his wife killed. The