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My last duchess
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My last Duchess detailed mind map and comparison to One flesh, 19th century poem vs 20th century poem, negative relationships comparison
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Alexandra Anderson
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My last duchess
Language devices and notes
Command words/ imperative phrases
'Will't please you sit and look at her?'
Anaphora
'Will't please you rise?'
^
He wants to assert his power
'My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
Pride
Indignant that the duchess wouldn't put his 'gift' above all others
Power
Lasted 900 years, and he is a duke
Rhetorical questions
'Who'd stop to blame this sort of trifling?'
Jealousy
'Sir, ’twas not Her husband’s presence only, called that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek;'
Lack of sadness
'I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will’t please you rise?'
Reminiscing
'the faint Half-flush'
'the white mule She rode with round the terrace'
Lack of guilt
Idea that his love for her grew cold
'This grew;'
bitter tone
need to control emotions/ lack of sexual emotion between the partners
Structure devices
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming couplets/ regular rhyme scheme (AABB)
Dramatic monologue
Caesura and enjambment
Gives the effect of a flowing - yet decidedly one sided - conversation
Context
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barett Browning
Extremely possessive and seemingly cold hearted father
Father/ parental link
Browning drew ideas of possession and cruelty from Elizabeth's father and his actions
Secretly met with and married Robert knowing it was against what her father wanted
Disinherited by her father for the relationship
Duke Alfonso II
Married a young girl who died under suspicious cicumstances
Some claimed she had been poisoned
Many believed the Duke had gotten bored or annoyed with her and ordered her murder
Remarried twice after this
1842
Browning was a Romantic poet
One Flesh
Structural devices
mostly regular rhyme scheme
Stanza focuses:1)Physical separation 2)Emotional separation 3)contrast over time
Rhyming couplets (at the end of each stanza)
Iambic pentameter
Language devices
Similies
'like a girl dreaming of childhood'
'Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion'
'Silence between them like a thread to hold'
Juxtaposition
'Strangely apart, yet strangely close together'
'Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold'
'Of having little feeling - or too much'
Rhetorical question
'Do they know they're old, These two who are my father and my mother Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?'
Love grown cold
'now grown cold'
bitter tone
A loveless relationship
Emotional confinement/ lack of emotional/sexual contact between the partners
Reminiscent tone at times
Parents
Context
Jennings was a devout Catholic
Poet: Elizabeth Jennings
1996
Similarities are in purple
Poet: Robert Browning
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