My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess is Browning‟s best known dramatic monologue which is a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent “audience” of one or more persons.
The poem is t during the Italian Renaissance and bad on the life of Alfonso II, duke of Ferrara. T he duke‟s dead wife is not well-educated and her family status is inferior when compared with nine-hundred-years-old Este family, but the duke married her with a sizeable dowry. The duchess died and the duke arranged another marriage for himlf; in order to ensure the amount of dowry, he had a negotiation with the emissary. Browning creates a character of chilling coldness and cruelty. Almost casually, the duke shows the agent the picture of the last duchess whom he had killed becau he could not dominate her.
The poem us iambic pentameter of AABB couplets as the poet reveals the story of the Duke's late wife through a conversation. For example,
That’s my last Duches s painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
戏曲进校园That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands
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Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
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Robert adopted open meter to make the poem natural and rigorous. At the same time, this rhythm coordinates well with the confidence of the duke.
When it comes to characters of this poem, I find only the duke speaks all through the poem without being disturbed. Obviously, the duke is the role that the author wanted to satirize most. After reading this poem, we will find that the duke is proud, posssive and lfish, and most ironically he killed his last wife who was innocent and kind.
We can e the pride of the duke from his word when he spoke of his family and his art collection. The language employed by the duke implies he is speaking with pride over a posssion, in that ca a piece of custom-made artwork. He takes care to emphasize the fact that it was painted by Fr Pandolf, presumably a talented and experienced artist. Bad on the speaker's eagerness to drop his name, it reveals him to be vain and materialistic, and less concerned with the loss of his previous
duchess. The duke‟s posssiveness and lfishness is revealed by his attitude of his last wife. In describing the duchess, traits in the duchess that the duke perceives as unbecoming are, in fact, aspects of her character that humanize her and render her more
朝花夕拾读书笔记摘抄及感悟sympathetic to the reader. For instance, the duke was outraged at the duchess' very outlook on life, "She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad". The duchess' ability to enjoy the simplest aspects of life, such as a bough of cherries, her white mule, or the "dropping of daylight in the west," angered the duke, or rather filled him with rent. He felt that he should be the only one to cau her excitement or happiness, but he failed to do so when the simplest gestures of kindness or things of beauty could.
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At the end of the poem, the Duke points to another work of art, a bronze statue of Neptune taming a a-hor. Apparently Neptune symbolized the Duke of Ferrara himlf and a-hor just like his late wife. Why did he mention this statue? One of his aims is to show his love for art and his posssions; and the other is that he wanted his next duchess would not do what his last duchess did.安全生产讲话
Through the duke's criticism of the duchess' positive traits, the reader gains a further understanding of his vainglorious character and of the greedy, underving aristocracy, as Browning intended.孤独指数
Except that, I would like to talk about the emissary. Though he did not say a word from beginning to end, his existence and reaction was tremendously expresd by what the duke said. For example, “Will…t plea you sit and look at her?”“Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir”,“Sir, 'twas all one!”“In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will”, “Will't plea you ri?” and“The Count your master's known munificence”, all the lines shows the silent emissary‟s activity and even what he said to the duke. The audience or the emissary is a part of a typical dramatic monologue though he never express his thought and this partly distinguishes dramatic monologue from soliloquy. And historically, the emissary is identified with Nikolaus Madruz, of Innsbruck, Austria.
安娜卡列尼娜读后感What‟s more, from criticism of the duke we can e what kind of people the last duchess is. She is gentle, kind, beautiful, noble-minded, and democratic. If she lives in our time, she must be very popular and have a lot of followers. But at her time, she could not survive. Therefore, women tried hard to be treated equally in later years and they emed to make it. And nowadays women can live a lifestyle as they like, which frustrate people like the duke.
单身男At last, I want to talk about the theme of the poem. The theme is the arrogant, authoritarian mindt of a proud Renaissance duke. In this respect, the more important portrait in the poem is the one the duke "paints" of himlf with his words.
