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Although the early part of Robert Browning’s creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important English poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues and the psycho-historical epic The Ring and the Book (1868-1869), a novel...
- My Last Duchess
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
- Childe Roland to The Dark Tower Came
- Bibliography
In “My Last Duchess”, the speaker is commonly understood to be to be the Duke of Ferrara and his unnamed, one-member audience is supposed to be an agent of the count of Tyrol. The agent is visiting in order to negotiate the Duke’s second marriage with the count’s daughter. The Duke points out a painting to the agent of his “last duchess”. He descri...
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church” is another dramatic monologue, and like in “My Last Duchess”, the speaker without attempting to do so, ends up revealing his vile character through insinuation. The speaker is a dying Bishop who addresses his “nephews,” at least some of whom are his sons. The theme of the poem consists of his te...
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” is a monologue, but unlike “My Last Duchess” and “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church,” it is not a dramatic monologue because there is no silent audience described in the poem. The title, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” is taken from Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” It is about a pilgrim who ...
Brumbaugh, Katherine. “Dramatic Monologue and “The Bishop”.” Universal Journal: The Association of Young Journalists and Writers. (2006): n. page. Web. 30 Mar. 2012. Cobb, Marta. The Narrator of “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”. 10 Sept. 2004. Web. 30 Mar 2012. Egervary, Alex. A Brief Discussion of Victorian Fantasy — Setting and Character.Th...
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The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first. Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 't was not. Her husband's presence only, called that spot. Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps. Frà Pandolf chanced to say, 'Her mantle laps.
Exercise 5.7.1 5.7. 1. Contributors and Attributions. Robert Browning’s father, Robert Browning, worked as a clerk in the Bank of England. His mother, Sarah Anna Wiedemann, was devoutly religious. So Browning was born into an apparently conventional middle-class Victorian household. But Browning’s father had a strong scholarly bent and ...
Robert Browning. “My Last Duchess” uses a dramatic monologue in the form of a Romantic verse to enter the unabashed, amoral mind of a psychopath. In it, a duke speaks to his unnamed audience while looking at a painting of his dead wife in his private art gallery. While the duke describes his wife, we come to find that she was an ...
Robert Browning (1812-1899) was a master of the dramatic monologue, and “My Last Duchess” is one of his most famous and most anthologized poem. The poem first appeared in 1842 in
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