Critical Reviews on "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning's collections of poetry are full of dramatic Monologues. ... Young compares "My Last Duchess" to a few dramatic monologues by Tennyson, such as, "St. ... (Young, p.37)" Young also compares "My Last Duchess" to "Bishop Orders his Tomb" in a strange way. ... Marchino takes a more forward approach on reviewing "My Last Duchess" in Masterplots II. ... Priestly breaks down "My Last Duchess" line to line and explains his thoughts of what each line means. ...

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Robert Browning's 1842 poem My Last Duchess influenced by the strict roles in relationships of the Victorian Era and patriarchal society, tells a story of a young man's unhelpful love. ... " "Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. ... My Last Duchess demonstrates this issue as the persona of the poem objectifies the woman, "The depth passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since non puts by The curtain I have drawn for you but I)" This emphasises the concept that men objectify women and expect as he degrades ...

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Many characteristics about the Duke are revealed throughout Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess". ... By doing this the duke is "buttering up" the representative because no stranger has ever looked at the duke's portrait of his duchess before " But to myself they turned (since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I). . ." (9) He explains how this portrait was painted in one day by "Fra Pandolf". With this told, the reader can imagine that the duke was very selfish about what he owned, and wanted no one else to see what he had, because the duchess was his. ... By ...

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The internal conflict of Duke Ferrara in My Last Duchess is very much left up to the reader to decide. ... The internal conflict is the Duke being jealous of the Duchess and also being guilty for not being able to give up this jealousy after the Duchess's death. The Duke loved his last wife. ... This painting is covered so that the Duchess can only look at the Duke. ... The Duke was jealous of the Duchess's love for life and her easy-going attitude. ...

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Browning's two poems where this is shown are "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover." ... "My Last Duchess" is loosely based on Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara, and the events surrounding his life. ... The Duchess was a young and lovely woman. ... He "looked up at her Happy and proud; as last [he] knew Porphyria worshipped [him]." ... In "My Last Duchess", the woman is killed for not caring about the finer things in life and just enjoying all the small, natural aspects; while in "Porphyria's Lover", the woman is killed for wanting the finer things that her lover can't pr...

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One of his most famous dramatic monologues is "My Last Duchess." ... He did not like it when Fra Pandolf, the artist who painted the portrait said: "Fra Pandolf chanced to say Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much, •or, Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat." to the duchess in lines 16-18. ... The duke also could not stand the fact that the duchess treated everyone and every gift equally; "all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least" (lines 29-31). ...

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My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "The Colonel" by Carolyn Force are two poems written a century apart, but are alike and different in several ways. ... He also receives money through his previous marriage to the Duchess. ...

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Chopin's short story Story of an Hour and Browning's epic poem My Last Duchess have effectively presented the reader with women within their oppressive society; however, the authors present unique techniques to convey societal oppression as influenced by their literary genres. ... The Duchess is not identified by any other means than "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall " (line 1). ... In My Last Duchess, Browning has the Duke dictate "Sir, ˜twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess' cheek " questioning her joyous blu...

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Robert Browning's poem "My last Duchess- is spoken from the perspective of the Duke and conveys the Dukes personality through the literary form of a dramatic monologue. ... The reader is directed to imagine the Duke walking with the envoy through his art gallery and the Duke stops to show him a painting of his last Duchess that is presently covered by a curtain. ... "As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift- (32-34). ... Robert Browning's poem "My last Duchess- is spoken from the perspective of the Duke and conveys the Dukes personality throu...

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Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue by the Duke of Ferrara. ... The initial focus was on a painting of the duke's last Duchess. The duke begins to describe the appearance of his last Duchess, and notes that only he controls her countenance behind the curtain that covers her portrait "since none puts by the curtains I have drawn for you, but I" (lines 9-10). As the poem develops, the duke explains that his last duchess was too easily impressed with the slightest things: "A heart--how shall I say?... The duke tries to convey to the reader that his last wife d...

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In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. ... With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... It can be considered that everything that comes after the proem is the elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, or is in praise of the poet's patron, the Duchess's husband, John of Gaunt. ... The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been lost. ... At last the dreamer understa...

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The plays are Jonson's Volpone and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. ... Volpone replies, "True, my beloved Mosca" (Jonson 1.1.30). ... In the first act, Volpone orders Mosca to "fetch me my gown,/ My furs, and night-caps" (Jonson 1.2.84-85) when Volpone readies himself to trick his first visitor Voltore. ... Other examples are: All my hopes/ depend upon your worship. ... His intentions and his actions my change, but it is all in accordance with his visible abilities. ...

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The poems are "The beggar woman", "To his coy mistress", "My last duchess", "How do I love thee?" ... "My Last Duchess" is about a Duke and his last wife's relationship. ... The poem "My Last Duchess" also explores a man attitude; this poem is different because the man's attitude towards the woman is established by his power. ... In "My Last Duchess" the duke talks about his last marriage. ...

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Browning is known across college campuses for many of his writings, but one of his most popular poems is My Last Duchess. ... What event influenced Browning and held his interest long enough for him to create the poetic conversation of My Last Duchess? My Last Duchess was based on an incident in the life of Alfonso d'Este, the duke of Ferrara in Italy. ... Browning's interest was sparked by this incident and brought about the creative dialogue of My Last Duchess. ... The question of whether or not historical background, personal experience, and family life, come out through a poe...

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There was enough food to last the four people ten days during which they hoped the blizzard would weaken and they could depart. ... The Duchess has on "draggles plumes with a feeble, faded coquetry" (Harte 1) as due her stature as woman, or in this case a harlot. ... He gets kicked a few times by John Oakhurst to keep his boisterous laughter and comments to himself when the Duchess is referred to as John's wife. ... Last of the subjects is death, which can be seen in the death of all but the antagonist of the story, Uncle Billy. ... The kicking out of immoral characters my have been...

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My Last Duchess 1842 represents a definite advance towards the dramatic monologue. The setting is more precise and the Duke's motive for speaking more distinct (to lay down a set of rules for his new Duchess by describing the flaws of the previous one). The language is more natural and the listener, (an envoy from the Count whose daughter will be the next Duchess) is more openly indicated. ... The style is conversational as the listener is asked to sit and look at a painting of the Duchess while the Duke describes her. ...

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The Questions of Love There are many questions of the universe that humans have struggled to find the answer to. Among the most puzzling questions are those involving love. What is love and whether it really exists or it's just an illusion crated by humans. These are just a few of the question...

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The unsolved mystery of the last Imperial family of Russia In this report, I will tell you about the last Imperial family. ... Alexandra became the truly believing Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna. ... At last they tied him up and threw him into a river, where he drowned. ... Many came forth claiming to be the imperial Duchess but she was the only one that was closely looked at. ... In my opinion, we will never really know what happened on that night and what happened to Anastasia. ...

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Moreover, the last scene in which the mechanicals present a fumbling, hilarious version of "Pyramus and Thisbe" at the wedding of Theseus, duke of Athens and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, is an important part of the play as it gives it a purely joyful, comedic ending. ... This quote shows her meek, submissive and humble characteristics after her bizarre experience: "Come, my lord, and in our flight/ Tell me how it come this night" (4.1.96-97). ... Moreover, the scene of the mechanicals performing "Pyramus and Thisbe" is important to the play as it is where ...

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For my last reaction paper I have decided to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which was written by Lewis Carroll. ... This is where she encounters a Duchess and the Cook battling fiercely. ... In the last trial scene her growth more or less reflects her interior growth. ...

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He demands to not only play Pyramus, but also wants to portray the female character of Thisbe, "An I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too" (1.2. 43). ... "I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. ... Bottom believed that his performance would be so realistic that it would frighten the Duchess and the ladies, resulting in the entire group being hanged. ... The comedy comes in when he says, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to rep...

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Then she meets the ugly Duchess again, as well as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire-Cat, and a Gryphon introduces her to a Mock Turtle. ... The last two chapters represent the overthrow of Wonderland and Alice's triumphant rebellion against the mayhem and madness that she experienced while she was lost in the strange world of Wonderland. ... My thesis on this paper is, Carroll's intended meaning behind this children's book. ...

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The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ... In my opinion winter represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates, whereas human being only dies. ...

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Renaissance in England was a period of pomp, show and glitter, marked with growing sense of beauty and an increasing enrichment of life made through adventures, bravery and excess. The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit of freedom, introducing a note of patriotism and national glorification, and also accompanying a revolt against the authority of the Pope. It was an age keeping pace with the bold adventures of men discovering new lands, and full of the work of scientists like Copernicus who had revealed man's t...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early "festive comedies,"" written around 1595-6. Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. The play's title, for instance, refers to an English holiday custom: on "Midsummer Eve,"" or the night of the summer solstice on June 23, English men and women would spend the night outdoors around bonfires, telling supernatural tales of fairies and witchcraft. The play not only ...

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