my last duchess
My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning, is an example of a dramatic monologue. Adramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The Duke is speaking to an envoy about his fisrt wife who is apparently dead. From what he is telling him, one can conclude that he is arrogant, domineering, and very insecure about his relationship. The Duke of Ferrara was a very arrogant man. He did not seem to care about the happiness of his wife, only his own. He did not like the fact that she found happiness in other places beside himself, as if he should be the only life in her life. He could not understand how she could rank his nine thousand year old name with more simpler things such as her white mule that she rode on the terrace, an act of kindness from an "officious fool" and the "drooping of the daylight in the west." His wife, no doubt, had no idea he
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Duke Ferrara, Fra Pandolf, Robert Browning, People Duke, dramatic monologue,
Approximate Word count = 650
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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