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Two readings by Tony-nominated actor Alfred Molina: a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "A Pedestrian" by Amit Majmudar. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
- Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess
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- Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess
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- Literary Devices
- Similar Poetry
‘My Last Duchess‘ by Robert Browning(Bio | Poems)is a chilling poem about the value of women in a duke’s life. In the first lines of the poem, the speakertells the reader that an emissary is visiting who is trying to negotiate a new marriage for the Duke. He also describes how he was recently married, inspired by a portrait of his late wife. He sug...
‘My Last Duchess‘ by Robert Browning(Bio | Poems) is a dramatic monologue written in five sections and made up of rhyming couplets. The poem is written mostly in iambic pentameter. This means that the lines contain five sets of two beats, the first of which is unstressed and the second of which is stressed. There are a few examples of trochees and ...
Browning makes use of several literary devices in ‘My Last Duchess.’ These include but are not limited to: 1. Alliteration: occurs when the poet uses the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. For example, “look” and “looked” in line twenty-four. 2. Caesura: seen through pauses the poet uses in the middle of lines. For example: “Somehow—I ...
Readers who enjoyed ‘My Last Duchess’ should also consider reading some other Robert Browning poems. For example: 1. ‘Boot and Saddle‘ – is a perfectly rhymed poem that depicts the ride of an Englishmen going to fight during the English Civil War. 2. ‘A Woman’s Last Word‘ – is made up of a wife’s request to her husband that they stop arguing for th...
“My Last Duchess” is a dramatic monologue written by Victorian poet Robert Browning in 1842. In the poem, the Duke of Ferrara uses a painting of his former wife as a conversation piece.
"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics . [1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter ( heroic couplet ).
Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess,” first published in Dramatic Lyrics (1842), is also an ekphrastic poem: one that engages with a work of art and in this case dramatizes viewers’ responses to the artwork.
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call. That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands. Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Jun 7, 2020 · Probably Robert Browning’s most famous (and widely studied) dramatic monologue, ‘My Last Duchess’ is spoken by the Duke of Ferrara, chatting away to an acquaintance (for whom we, the reader, are the stand-in) and revealing a sinister back-story lurking behind the portrait of his late wife, the Duchess, that adorns the wall.
