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By Robert Browning. FERRARA. That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call. That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands. Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said. “Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read. Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
“My Last Duchess” is a dramatic monologue written by Victorian poet Robert Browning in 1842. In the poem, the Duke of Ferrara uses a painting of his former wife as a conversation piece. The Duke speaks about his former wife's perceived inadequacies to a representative of the family of his bride-to-be, revealing his obsession with ...
‘My Last Duchess‘ by Robert Browning (Bio | Poems) is a chilling poem about the value of women in a duke’s life. In the first lines of the poem, the speaker tells the reader that an emissary is visiting who is trying to negotiate a new marriage for the Duke. He also describes how he was recently married, inspired by a portrait of his late ...
Track 3 on Dramatic Lyrics. Robert Browning (1812-1899) was a master of the dramatic monologue, and “My Last Duchess” is one of his most famous and most anthologized poem. The poem first ...
My Last Duchess. Lucrezia de' Medici by Bronzino or Alessandro Allori, generally believed to be the subject of the poem. " My Last Duchess " is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. [1]
My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool. Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule. She rode with round the terrace—all and each. Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked.
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”. A poet uses a punctuation mark to plot a crime. By Camille Guthrie. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “ My Last Duchess ,” first published in Dramatic Lyrics (1842), is also an ekphrastic poem: one that engages with a work of art and in this case dramatizes viewers’ responses to the artwork.
