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A 3 page paper which examines and analyzes Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the narrator is providing the reader with something of a soliloquy and thus offers insight into the character of that speaker, revealing very powerful elements of the narrators weaknesses and
character. The following paper examines this poem. My Last Duchess It is believed that "The narrator in My Last Duchess is partially based on Alfonso II,
Duke of Ferrara, who lived in Italy during the 16th century...As the duke and the agent walk through the dukes home, the agent apparently comments on a painting of a
woman with an interesting expression on her face; the duke says he is not the first to mention the joyous blush (lines 11-13). The duke explains that this was his
last duchess" (McClure). At this point in the poem "The duke proceeds to recount a list of his complaints about the former duchess. The duke criticizes his late wife for
the lovely smile she bestowed on everyone (13-15), for her politeness to others (20-21), and for the pleasure she felt in the simplest of kindnesses shown to her" (McClure). She
never talks, for the Duke "intention [was] to finish his wife...as an objet dart" (Dupras). From one perspective we can see that it is a poem that is
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, and disturbingly, obsessed with his subject.
It is a poem about a painting, but also about a woman who the narrator may well have killed because of her unfaithfulness, or his belief that she was unfaithful.
It is a darkly mysterious and controlling poem that seems to truly represent all that is being examined herein as it relates to obsession and silent women. In Brownings poem
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