Week 11-12

Question 1

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Answer 1

-19th century English poet- educated and tutored at home in Camberwell, England
-Moved to Italy after marrying poet Elizabeth Barrett.
-As a poet, Borwning is known, in part, for inventing the dramatic monologue as a poetic form.
Wrote the poem, ‘My Last Duchess’

Question 2

What is a monologue?

Answer 2

-Long speech uttered by one person without response or dialogue
-A dramatic monologue features a single first-person speaker who is clearly somebody other than the poet.
-usually some kind of event or occasion going on that forms the background of the poem.

Question 3

The Duke as a Storyteller

Answer 3

-Jealous
-Dukes obsession with her blush
-List all the things that seemed to please her
-Husband?

Question 4

The Duchess

Answer 4

-The Duke controls the image, and she is past tense
-Is her past or her portrait most important?
-Her likeness- realism of portrait, but also her image looks out from the portrait at the viewer.
-How did she die?

Question 5

The Dukes Control

Answer 5

-The duchess
-questions are more demands
-The count’s representative
-His assumptions are never questioned

Question 6

Form

Answer 6

-Iambic Pentameter
-Rhyming couplets (AABBCCDD)
highly ordered verse from: heroic couplets