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Robert Browning uses dramatic monologue in "My Last Duchess," where the speaker reveals his thoughts and feelings while addressing another character in the poem, creating tension and inviting the reader to interpret the underlying meaning of his words. This technique allows Browning to explore themes of power, control, and jealousy through the perspective of the Duke.
In "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, the Duke of Ferrara describes his late wife, the Duchess, to a visitor. Through the Duke's words, the reader gains insight into the Duke's controlling and possessive nature, as well as his jealousy and arrogance. The poem is a dramatic monologue where the Duke's persona is revealed through his speech.
The poem "My Last Duchess" is about a duke who loves his wife too much. He also feels jealous that she treats everybody with the same attitude--her servants or husband or anyone else. She gave them all the same smile, when someone gave her a flower or her husband gave her a precious gift. All are equal in her eyes. One day her husband became fed up with this kind of attitude and killed her. And on the other day, he called a famous painter who made his wife's beautiful portrait.
In Robert Browning's poem "The Lady or the Tiger?" the ending is intentionally left open to interpretation. The princess, faced with a choice for her lover's fate, gestures towards one of the doors, but it is up to the reader to decide if she picked the door with the lady or the tiger behind it. The poem explores themes of love, jealousy, and the complexity of human emotions.
"My Last Duchess" is about a Duke who is talking to a servant of a man who wants the Duke to marry his daughter. The Duke is with the servant in his house and begins to go on a long explanation of a painting of his "last duchess." He goes on and on, complaining of how terrible she was, that she did not appreciate his riches and his rare name, and that she was too happy. He hints that he somehow got rid of his last duchess. He then explains to his servant about another piece of artwork he has, a statue of Poseidon taming a seahorse, which is an analogy to the Duke and the way he wanted to tame the Duchess. In the end, the Duke and Servant go to talk to the servant's master, but the servant is convinced that the master will not want his daughter to marry the Duke.
1855 poem by Robert Browning titled 'The Faultless Painter' about Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto is widely accepted to have coined the phrase.
Robert Burns' last poem was "Farewell to the Brethren of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton." It was written in September 1796, shortly before his death.
Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, that is, a poem supposedly told from the perspective of a certain person, whose personality is revealed in the course of the poem. In this poem, a rich nobleman (Duke) of the Italian Renaissance is showing a guest his art collection. When he gets to a certain painting, he says that it is of his "last duchess," meaning the one who is no longer living. He explains how he loved her but she stopped pleasing him at some point because she no longer looked especially happy to see him, any happier than she generally looked. He wanted her to smile especially at him. Finally, he says that he gave a command and "all smiles stopped together," in the poem's famous line. His lack of any sadness or remorse as he tells the story is further sign of his cruelty.
Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue, that is, a poem supposedly told from the perspective of a certain person, whose personality is revealed in the course of the poem. In this poem, a rich nobleman (Duke) of the Italian Renaissance is showing a guest his art collection. When he gets to a certain painting, he says that it is of his "last duchess," meaning the one who is no longer living. He explains how he loved her but she stopped pleasing him at some point because she no longer looked especially happy to see him, any happier than she generally looked. He wanted her to smile especially at him. Finally, he says that he gave a command and "all smiles stopped together," in the poem's famous line. His lack of any sadness or remorse as he tells the story is further sign of his cruelty.
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Robert Browning published his poem "A Woman's Last Word" in 1855. The poem is part of his collection "Men and Women."
Monologues are not dramatic all, but Robert Browning's My Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue because the fact of the Duke to have got his wife killed for looking and smiling at another person is revealed as if in a suspenseful drama only towards the end. Also the readers towards the end will jump in their seats to think whether the long line of the poet's previous wives would not have suffered the same fate. This poem is not a monologue in poetry but real drama condensed into poetry.