👸🏻 my last duchess quotes Flashcards
1
Q
- my last duchess
- ironic
- wants the person to look at her when she has died by didn’t like it when men looked at her when she was still alive
A
‘Will’t please you sit and look at her?’
2
Q
- my last duchess
- the drawing is a visual symbol of his power
- keeps it behind sth so that he can control who sees her
A
‘(…The curtain I have drawn for you…)’
3
Q
- my last duchess
- he was disgusted that other men looked at her
- dukes insecurity and paranoia
A
‘her looks went everywhere’
4
Q
- my last duchess
- he is happy that she is well-mannered but hes not happy with it
- he values his surname a lot
A
‘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’
5
Q
- my last duchess
- metaphor of roman god of the sea
- thinks himself as god-like and supposed to tame her
A
‘Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity’
