My Last Duchess

Question 1

What are 5 quotations for My Last Duchess?

Answer 1

• “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”
• “Half - flush that dies along her throat.”
• “My gift of a nine - hundred year old name”
• “I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether.”
• “Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse”

Question 2

What is context for My last Duchess?

Answer 2

• About Italian Duke Alfonso II, who ruled ferrara between 1559 and 1597
• Duchess is his first wife, who died under suspicious circumstances
• Poem set in1564, 3 years after wife death
• Browning a big fan of Shelley
• romantic poet
• known for his use of dramatic monologue