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My Last Duchess 3 - Paper

My Last Duchess 3

In Browning’s My Last Duchess, it appears that the Duke would have had the Duchess attend only to him. The Duchess is portrayed as someone that is easily pleased. In the passages:
Her husband's presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess' cheek
She had
A heart -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

Browning conveys to us that the Duchess could be easily impressed. Through his use of words, “her looks went everywhere” and the rhythm that he establishes in this passage, the reader is given a picture of the Duchess as a playful and frivolous woman that was quickly ...

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as simple as the sun setting, “The dropping of the daylight in the West.” In the following passage the reader is given the first glimpse of what probably led the Duke to such a violent act:
She thanked men -- good! but thanked
Somehow -- I know not how -- as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody's gift.

The Duke, it appears, was jealous of the attention that she gave to others. Browning tells us much about the type of person the Duke was in these lines:

Even had you skill
In speech -- which I have not -- to make your will
Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this
Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark" -- and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse
-- E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile?

Browning conveys ...

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Added: 9/4/2008 05:36:07 AM
Category: English
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