POEMS - MY LAST DUCHESS (quotes)

Question 1

“That’s my last … “

Answer 1

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

Question 2

“I said / ‘Fra Pandolf’ … “

Answer 2

“I said / ‘Fra Pandolf’ by design, for never read / Strangers like you that pictured countenance”

Question 3

“Are you to turn and ask thus … “

Answer 3

“Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ‘twas not / Her husband’s presence only, that called that spot / Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek.”

Question 4

“Paint / Must never hope to … “

Answer 4

“Paint / Must never hope to reproduce the faint / Half-flush that dies along her throat”

Question 5

“She thanked men … “

Answer 5

“She thanked men, - good! but thanked / Somehow - I know not how”

Question 6

“As if she ranked … “

Answer 6

“As if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name / With anybody’s gift.”

Question 7

“This grew; … “

Answer 7

“This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”

Question 8

“Notice Neptune … “

Answer 8

“Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”