my last duchess notes

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the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule Simile shes dead Proper noun, famous painter → boasting his wife had an affair" The torical question-the duke controls who the duchess sees She's seen as an object ACAD English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library "he is threatening → "if they dare" - h and sinister. She rode with rour 30 Would draw from Or blush, at leas Somehow-1 kr My gift of a nin With anybody' 35 This sort of tri In speech - ( Quite clear t Or that in y duke is jealous of the duchess's good nature → metaphor-blushing flirtacious and immodest metaphor Sinister-reference to murder repeated metaphor-obsessive about her friendships with others Personification-she is innocent and didnt deserve to die Pronoun-reference to infidelity sunset. Or there ex 40 Herself be Her wits 1 - E'en th Never tr Whene 45 Much Then As if The The 50 Is a Of T 55 F GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY She rode with round the terrace - all and each 30 Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men, - good! but thanked Somehow I know not how - as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame> 35 This sort of trifling? Even had you skill In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this- Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark' - and if she let 40 Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set. Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, - E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without 45 Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence 50 Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, 55 Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! "Proper noun: boasting rhetorical question: justified in his actions. arrogance of status: metaphor: by marrying him She gained power She should have for him, he is repulsed changed by her Kindness. verb-she will not change to suit him, he feels powerless metaphor-he refuses to She didnt show him compromise enougn emphaism: he doesnt openly admit to murder-it implied. repeated simile- cyclicalt he will goal: noun, he Objectifies Love. repeat this and kill another wife. marriage напалоду: ies women market : the duke sees himself as a aga.org.uk/english-e-library god. 31 ACA wnward a pr Whiteboard Peris MY LAST DUCHESS CONTEXT -based on a true story →duke Alfonso II was rumoured to have his first wife (Lucrezia) poisoned and murdered in the 1950's in Italy. Alfonso had three wives in total, the first two "died" and the last outlived him. → browning is a victorian poet who was very widely read and wants to comment on the female oppression in this poem.. Compare to.... 1. Ozymadias: abuse of power 2. poppies: death/loss of life 3. checking out me history. EVA S eric ( hims. worl dri if