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My Last Duchess 2
Title: My Last Duchess 2
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2721 | Pages: 11.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
My Last Duchess 2
OVERVIEW:
This is probably Browning most famous dramatic monologue. It is often used as a prime example of the form.
In this poem the speaker, the duke of Ferrara, is addressing a second character, an agent of an unnamed count whose daughter the duke
plans to marry. The situation is take from the life of an actual sixteenth-century Italian duke, but Browning has imagined the specific
incident.
The duke is showing the count's agent a …showed first 75 words of 2721 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2721 total…me to make my own
version of the poem. First-person narration, addressing readers directly, allows me to insert myself into the
performance as a listener/peeping tom/judge. The deciphering of speech invokes a fluid set of codes and
experiences that are further conditioned by my own understanding of the Duke's character. In this way there
are as many poems as there are readers, since the audience -- placed in the poem -- is an infinite variable.
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