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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