1. My Last Duchess
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...
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...