“Imaginatively, she is of the highest importance, practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history.” This forms the opening lines of Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”. The woman is portrayed on similar lines in Browning’s monologue. My Last Duchess” demonstrates Browning’s philosophy […]
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During the lives of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, their poetry was considered to be the epitome of the day. Both were prolific writers even before their marriage. Robert Browning wrote hundreds of poems, dozens of plays and hundreds of letters to his wife and friends. Elizabeth Barrett Browning published over a dozen volumes of […]
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“My Last Duchess” is not an easy song to understand. This is partly because it was written in the 16th century, but mainly because Browning intentionally makes the speaker cryptic. To better understand what is going on in the poem, look at the summary and notes on the form and tone of the poem. Summary: […]
In the Poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning the heartless and haughty speaker explains a painting of his last wife while inadvertently revealing a darker side to his last marriage than one might view from they outside. The poem depicts a dense stream of conscious feel to it by using language and sentence structure […]