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In iambic pentameter couplets, the speaker of the poem, the Duke of Ferrara say: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive ...
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That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her?
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www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Robert_Browning/1615
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The title evidently refers to a wall painting that Ferrara reveals to someone yet unidentified in the first fourteen words of the poem. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall," he says. ... His choice of words may suggest that, while she, the Duchess herself (rather than her image in the painting), looks alive,
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Sees her as his, to be owned, That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,. like his other grand possessions, Looking as if she were alive. I call ...
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www.teachit.co.uk/user_content/satellites/2/Duchess/Duc...
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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, ... Looking as if she were alive. I call ... For calling up that spot of joy. She had...
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poetryoutloud.org/poems/poem.html?id=173024
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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,... ... 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...
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www.poeticportal.net/content/view/453/29/
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My Last Duchess - by Robert Browning .. FERRARA. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. ... That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call; That piece a wonder,
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www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-last-duchess/
www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-last-duchess/
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The monologue begins with Ferrara telling a visitor, “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / Looking as if she were alive.” Immediately, the listener/reader infers that the Duchess is now dead, since she merely “look[s] as if she were alive.” But this statement cannot prove her death.
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british-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/brownings_my_la...
british-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/brownings_my_last_duchess
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In this first two lines of the poem introduce us to the main topic of the duke's speech, a painting of his late wife: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive." We immediately begin to suspect that the duchess is no longer alive.
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