my last duchess

Question 1

thats my ____ _______ _______ on the wall

Answer 1

thats my last dutchess painted on the wall

Question 2

will’t you ______ sit and ____ __ ___

Answer 2

will’t you please sit and look at her

Question 3

since ____ puts by / the ________ i have drawn for ___, but i

Answer 3

since none puts by / the curtain i have drawn for you, but i

Question 4

this ____, i gave ____________, / then ___ ______ stopped together

Answer 4

This grew, i gave commands,/ then all smiles stopped together

Question 5

as if ___ ______ / my ____ of a ____-hundred-_____-old name / with anybodys ____

Answer 5

as if she ranked / my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name / with anybodys gift

Question 6

notice _______, though, ______ a sea- _____

Answer 6

notice neptune though, taming a sea horse

Question 7

what century is my last dutchess set

Answer 7

16th

Question 8

who wrote my last duchess

Answer 8

robert browning

Question 9

what is robert browning trying to show

Answer 9

shows how unfairly women were treated in the 16th century and how everything his wife did seemed to be a problem

Question 10

my last duchess can relate to?

Answer 10

power of humanity
memory
identity

Question 11

what poems can my last duchess be compared to

Answer 11

london
poppies

Question 12

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,/looking as if she were alive”

Answer 12

-“last” = indicates that there will be more to come
-“my” = shows his possessive nature
-“as if she were alive” = appearance v reality bc painted so well

Question 13

“Will’t you please sit and look at her?”

Answer 13

-Sounds like a request, is actually a command

Question 14

“Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I”

Answer 14

-Treat like an item, not a person, same as how he treated her when she was alive
-“puts by the curtain” = metaphor for his control

Question 15

“She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad”

Answer 15

-Duke thought she was too free spirited
-Appearance v reality = was she really that flirty?

Question 16

“Her looks went everywhere”

Answer 16

-Says in a negative way bc wants to dominate everything
-Not traditional Victorian woman and that displeased the Duke
-Expects Duchess to be ‘obedient’
-jealousy

Question 17

“As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift”

Answer 17

-Wants her to show more gratitude
-Thinks the name is enough for her bc so powerful but not, shows the loveless nature of the marriage
-Duchess does anything to feel appreciated

Question 18

“Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling?”

Answer 18

-Rhetorical question
-“stoop” = lower, Duke would never lower himself to insult her, but does

Question 19

“and I choose never to stoop”

Answer 19

-Duke believes that class is important
-Shows his arrogance

Question 20

“I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together”

Answer 20

-Euphemism for murder
-Caesura after “together” = replicates how Duke ended a life
-Shows the extent to how controlling the Duke is

Question 21

“Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse”

Answer 21

-Back to boasting, shows is his priority
-“taming” = seahorse is under Neptune’s domain but still controls it, just like the Duke and the Duchess in death.
-Duke sees himself as a God

Question 22

the poem

Answer 22

-About a woman succumbing to a man’s power
-Thought that the Duchess had overall control bc is always on Duke’s mind even when dead

Question 23

context

Answer 23

-Dramatic monologue in iambic pentameter
-“Spoken” by Duke of Ferrara
-First wife died mysteriously