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The document discusses the poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. It analyzes the character and voice of the speaker, the Duke. [The Duke takes the listener on a tour of a portrait of his deceased wife and reveals through his word choices that he secretly resented her easy manner with others and felt she did not properly appreciate him. The analysis discusses how the Duke's hidden feelings and insecurities are betrayed through his long-winded speech.]

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Poetry Across Time: Character and voice Key Language: connotation, imagery, metaphor, simile Structure and form: stanzas, type, patterns, contrast, juxtaposition Poetic methods: alliteration, caesura, assonance, rhythm, rhyme Character and voice: who is speaking and to whom? Tone of voice Links: comparisons to other speakers, methods and themes Immediate separation between the poet and speaker within the theatrical framework of st Genre: plays with Title (1 person): Sense of dramatic monologues. gothic tradition of ownership, sequences and examining the dark aristocracy. Untold story hidden in secrets behind old details of the painting as money. My Last Duchess with this poem. Similar to Establishes Ozymandias the location (same significance of artefacts. Full rhyming couplets as River God). FERRARA throughout shows another affiliation with Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Shakespearean theatre. Deliberate use of Looking as if she were alive. I call ambiguity/ That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolfs hands Rhyming couplets are less innuendo Worked busily a day, and there she stands. conventional for long suggests Willt please you sit and look at her? I said narratives, which make jealousy. Fra Pandolf by design, for never read this feel contrived. Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, Metaphor - But to myself they turned (since none puts by letting out of the curtain I have drawn for you, but I) Archaic diction evocative secrets. And seemed they would ask me, if they durst, of character clearly How such a glace came there; so not the first dating the speaker as a Repetition of distant figure. Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, twas not full name suggests Her husbands presence only, called that spot obsession/ Of joy into the Duchesss cheek: perhaps The characters secrets fixation. Fra Pandolf chanced to say Her mantle laps are betrayed by Must never hope to reproduce the faint semantics as he Half flush that dies along her throat: such stuff chooses words from an Browning obviously violent field. makes it clear Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough that meaning For calling up that spot of you. She had is to be gained A heart-how shall I say? too soon made glad, Dukes politeness slips through Too easily impressed; she liked whateer as source of his hidden interrogation of She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. turmoil is revealed euphemisms. through Browning listing Sir, twas all one! My favor at her breast, his grievances. The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
C&V themes what do each of Dukes self-interjections become a sign of the characters in these poems his instability or inability to conceal his guilt. value most? Speaker is born She rode with round the terraceall and each into a wealthy lineage, Would draw from her alike the approving speech, cementing the Or blush, at least. She thanks mengood! But thanked gothic nature Emphasis on SomehowI know not howas if she ranked and creating a the importance My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name sense of of keeping up With anybodys gift. Whod stoop to blame superiority. appearances a character This sort of trifling? Even had you skill who values In speech(which I have not)to make your will this over Quite clear to such a one, and say, Just this human life. Enjambment, as with Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss river God shows an Rhetorical Or there exceed the markand if she let inability to fully collate question Herself be lessoned so, not plainly set and separate his suggests Duke has no real her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse stories from his --Een then would be some stooping; and I choose emotions. awareness of who he is Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt Ambiguity speaking to or Wheneer I passed her; but passed without Duke thinks he his vast Much the same smile? This grew; I gave her commands; has been impropriety. Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands cleverer than he As if alive. Willt please you rise? Well meet has Brownings Browning hints the company below, then. I repeat comment on at a sense of The count your maters known munificence arrogance and guilt behind Is ample warrant that no just pretence wealth? the tyranny? Of mine dowry will be disallowed Voice: clear distinction between Though his fair daughters self, as I avowed public and private conversations. At starting, is my object. Nay, well go Chooses art appealing to Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, Brownings evocation of his Taming a sea horse, thought a rarity, an extreme patriarchy vanity/desire Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! (comment on Italian to be god-like. Preoccupation with artists and prestige. society?) Structure: we only find out who the listener is at the end to give a sense of the Dukes contrived behaviour and also for a bleak, comic effect in realising who is being told all this info. Interpretations of the poem: A commentary on the arrogance of wealthy and powerful men who see the world as a series of things to be possessed. A study in how our own subconscious betrays the secrets we keep when we allow ourselves the vanity to talk at length.

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  • 1. Poetry Across Time: Character and voice Key Language: connotation, imagery, metaphor, simile Structure and form: stanzas, type, patterns, contrast, juxtaposition Poetic methods: alliteration, caesura, assonance, rhythm, rhyme Character and voice: who is speaking and to whom? Tone of voice Links: comparisons to other speakers, methods and themes Immediate separation between the poet and speaker within the theatrical framework of st Genre: plays with Title (1 person): Sense of dramatic monologues. gothic tradition of ownership, sequences and examining the dark aristocracy. Untold story hidden in secrets behind old details of the painting as money. My Last Duchess with this poem. Similar to Establishes Ozymandias the location (same significance of artefacts. Full rhyming couplets as River God). FERRARA throughout shows another affiliation with Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Shakespearean theatre. Deliberate use of Looking as if she were alive. I call ambiguity/ That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolfs hands Rhyming couplets are less innuendo Worked busily a day, and there she stands. conventional for long suggests Willt please you sit and look at her? I said narratives, which make jealousy. Fra Pandolf by design, for never read this feel contrived. Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, Metaphor - But to myself they turned (since none puts by letting out of the curtain I have drawn for you, but I) Archaic diction evocative secrets. And seemed they would ask me, if they durst, of character clearly How such a glace came there; so not the first dating the speaker as a Repetition of distant figure. Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, twas not full name suggests Her husbands presence only, called that spot obsession/ Of joy into the Duchesss cheek: perhaps The characters secrets fixation. Fra Pandolf chanced to say Her mantle laps are betrayed by Must never hope to reproduce the faint semantics as he Half flush that dies along her throat: such stuff chooses words from an Browning obviously violent field. makes it clear Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough that meaning For calling up that spot of you. She had is to be gained A heart-how shall I say? too soon made glad, Dukes politeness slips through Too easily impressed; she liked whateer as source of his hidden interrogation of She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. turmoil is revealed euphemisms. through Browning listing Sir, twas all one! My favor at her breast, his grievances. The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
  • 2. C&V themes what do each of Dukes self-interjections become a sign of the characters in these poems his instability or inability to conceal his guilt. value most? Speaker is born She rode with round the terraceall and each into a wealthy lineage, Would draw from her alike the approving speech, cementing the Or blush, at least. She thanks mengood! But thanked gothic nature Emphasis on SomehowI know not howas if she ranked and creating a the importance My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name sense of of keeping up With anybodys gift. Whod stoop to blame superiority. appearances a character This sort of trifling? Even had you skill who values In speech(which I have not)to make your will this over Quite clear to such a one, and say, Just this human life. Enjambment, as with Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss river God shows an Rhetorical Or there exceed the markand if she let inability to fully collate question Herself be lessoned so, not plainly set and separate his suggests Duke has no real her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse stories from his --Een then would be some stooping; and I choose emotions. awareness of who he is Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt Ambiguity speaking to or Wheneer I passed her; but passed without Duke thinks he his vast Much the same smile? This grew; I gave her commands; has been impropriety. Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands cleverer than he As if alive. Willt please you rise? Well meet has Brownings Browning hints the company below, then. I repeat comment on at a sense of The count your maters known munificence arrogance and guilt behind Is ample warrant that no just pretence wealth? the tyranny? Of mine dowry will be disallowed Voice: clear distinction between Though his fair daughters self, as I avowed public and private conversations. At starting, is my object. Nay, well go Chooses art appealing to Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, Brownings evocation of his Taming a sea horse, thought a rarity, an extreme patriarchy vanity/desire Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! (comment on Italian to be god-like. Preoccupation with artists and prestige. society?) Structure: we only find out who the listener is at the end to give a sense of the Dukes contrived behaviour and also for a bleak, comic effect in realising who is being told all this info. Interpretations of the poem: A commentary on the arrogance of wealthy and powerful men who see the world as a series of things to be possessed. A study in how our own subconscious betrays the secrets we keep when we allow ourselves the vanity to talk at length.