Chapter 11 Flashcards
What makes the monk in Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister such an interesting character?
He talks like people talk and his flaws are visible even though he tries to hide them.
What line in My Last Duchess suggests the Duke did something terrible to the Duchess?
“I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together.”
How is it ironic that this poem is called My Last Duchess?
It’s ironic because no one else would want to marry him since he is a murderer.
In Dover Beach, what is the speaker looking at?
He is looking at the beach and the sea, or more specifically, the English Channel.
Whom is the speaker talking to in this poem?
to his love
Who is the poet that Browning marries?
He married Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was a possible candidate for for Poet Laureate of England.
What is dramatic monologue?
A poem told in the first person from the perspective of one person or voice, usually by someone with serious moral problems.
What is Browning’s ideas about how art should work?
He believes art should catch us so that we see something that we have seen previously in nature and cause us to see it with fresh eyes and recognize its beauty.
Matthew Arnold in his poem Dover Beach, likens faith to what?
to the tide retreating into the ocean
What does Arnold say is all that is left after Christianity has pulled away?
There is nothing left but loving each other.
