My Last Duchess Quotes Flashcards
Opening two lines of poem creating a sinister tone surrounding death in my last duchess
That’s my last duchess painted on the wall
Looking as if she were alive.I call
Quote showing the duke talking to somebody
Will’t you please sit and look at her
Quote showing the duke has full control over the duchess and who sees her now
The curtain I have drawn for you
Quote from Duke showing how it’s not only him that made her happy
Twas not
her husbands presence only,called that spot of joy into the duchess cheek
Quote showing her blushes being presented sinisterly
Half flush that dies along her throat
Quote showing how the duke was angry with the duchess and what she looked at
She liked whate’er she looked on and her looks went everywhere
Quote showing the duchess loving both nature and gifts
Sir twas all at once!My favour at her breast,the dropping of daylight in the west
Quote showing the duke calling his name a gift
My gift of a nine hundred years old name
Quote showing how the duke talking to the duchess would be below him
E’en then would be some stooping;and i choose never to stoop
Quote showing how the duke will control his next wife and the last line featuring another name drop
Notice neptune though,taming a sea horse though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for Me!
Euphimism for the duchess’s death
I gave commands then all smiles stopped altogether
Quote showing the duke having false modesty and then demonizing the duchess
Even had you skill in speech (which i have not) to make your will quite clear to such a one
Structure of My Last Duchess
One large domineering Stanza to show power of duke
Enjambment and Ceasuera throughout shows duke becoming emotional
Dramatic monologue with neither Duchess or person he is talking to having a voice shows the selfish nature of duke
Whole poem is in rhyming couplet showing control and the duke’s obsession with control
