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“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.
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’ by Robert Browning is a well-known dramatic monologue. It suggests that the speaker has killed his wife and will soon do the same to the next. Read Poem. PDF Guide. Share. Cite. Share. Robert Browning. Nationality: English. Poet Guide. Robert Browning was an English poet born in 1812.
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.
In Robert Browning's poem “My Last Duchess,” the duke of Ferrara addresses an emissary of the count whose daughter the duke intends to marry. The duke...
"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] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter ( heroic couplet ).
Jun 7, 2020 · Probably Robert Browning’s most famous (and widely studied) dramatic monologue, ‘My Last Duchess’ is spoken by the Duke of Ferrara, chatting away to an acquaintance (for whom we, the reader, are the stand-in) and revealing a sinister back-story lurking behind the portrait of his late wife, the Duchess, that adorns the wall.
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.
My Last Duchess – The Poetry Society: Poems. 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?
My Last Duchess. Load audio player. Robert Browning. 1812 –. 1889. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call. That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands.
