My Last Duchess Flashcards
Quote 1: MINE MINE MINE
“My last duchess” - possessive pronoun ‘my’
Quote 2: art ______
‘Piece’ - objectification
Quote 3: wilt plees you oh pleasey weasey
“Wilt please you sit and look at her?” - power - not a question
Quote 4: curtains
‘(Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I)’ - controlling
Quote 5: dursty bastard
‘If they durst’ - durst = dare
Quote 6: duke establishing his superiority to the guy
“Sir” - establishing his superiority (social standing)
Quote 7: chanceee?!??!?
“Chanced to say” - paranoid
Quote 8: throt
“Her throat” - conveying / hinting at her death later
Quote 9: duke being an uncle H-h-howe?!??
‘- how shall I say?-‘ can’t express his feelings / struggles to communicate
Quote 10: babe is looking wverywhare
“Her looks went everywhere” - paranoid
Quote 11: officiousness
“Some officious fool” - how he sees nice/ kind people
Quote 12: muulleeede
“The white mule” - impure bred animal silly
Quote 13: duke really likes his name
“ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years old name with anybody’s gift” - pride
Quote 14: stoopy stoop
“Who’d stoop” - above them
Quote 15: bro has no skills in speech
“-(which I have not)-“ skills in speech of duke
Quote 16: she doesn’t let herself be mansplained
“If she let herself be lessoned so” freedom “let herself” be lectured
Quote 17: I do neva stoop
“Be some Stooping and I choose never to stoop” - above others
Quote 18: my penis right now
“This grew” - anger
Quote 19: ordering execution
“I gave commands” - hints at execution
Quote 20: no more smileys
“Then all smiles stopped together” - control
Quote 21:superficial Neptune thing
“Notice Neptune , though taming a seahorse” - analogy for him and his late duchess
Quote 22: duke flexes cast in bronzx
“Cast in bronze for me” - flexing - importance
Context:
Victorian poet, marriage market prevalence , often wrote dramatic monologues with sinister characters, strong interest in Italy and resonance period
Form:
Dramatic monologue
