My Last Duchess Flashcards
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall”
former partner
caught up in the idea of making a show of status
“Frà Pandolf’s hands”
name-dropping
painter
“Will’t please you sit and look at her?”
rhetorical question
command
“A heart- how shall I say/-too soon made glad Too easily impressed:”
to easily pleased- women can’t discriminate
thinks he’s superior
“-i know not how-“
implying superiority
“my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
implying his name is of greater worth/value
high status/ rich & wealthy
“I gave commands;”
ambiguity
it’s sinister and unclear what he was doing
“Will’t you please rise?”
powerful command
rhetorical question
“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed at starting, is my object”
possessive object
another object to be controlled, collected and owned
“Nay, we’ll go together down ,sir”
he must lead-haunting his listener: listener backing away
“Notice Neptune,”
boastful and showing off
“Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”
name-dropping/ showing off
