https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk My Last Duchess by Robert Browning en-us 2020-06-17 12:46:27 UTC 2025-11-24 11:09:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630506430 2020-06-17 13:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630506430 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630601926 This poem is based on historical events involving Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The speaker of the poem is the Duke who talks about his recent marriage. He shows the visitor that he is talking to through his palace, he stops at a portrait of the late Duchess, who was a young and lovely girl.He remembers her.He claims she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his “gift of a nine-hundred-years- old name.” ]]> 2020-06-17 14:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630601926 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630658216 In the poem an enjambment is used."My Last Duchess" is a monologue.]]> 2020-06-17 14:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630658216 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630958808 The techniques used in the poem are:
1. Enjambment
2. Assonance
3.Hyperbole
4. Alliteration
5. Simile
6. Irony]]> 2020-06-17 17:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630958808 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630988610 1. Jealousy
2. Hatred
3. Power (political and social power)

]]> 2020-06-17 18:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630988610 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630993249 "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive". 
The poem (monologue) begins with an iambic pentameter.The word "last" suggests that the Duke had so many wives.

]]> 2020-06-17 18:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/630993249 16marsaid https://padlet.com/16marsaid/f48b1h8y2fixwcbk/wish/631004539 "Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule she rode with round the terrace".

This quote suggests that Duke might have not liked her riding a mule because it was not a good way of transport.The "white mule" suggests that it could be an expensive gift from the Duke.

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