This poem provides examples of dramatic monologue, open couplets, and persona. |
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said
In his castle, the arrogant Duke of Ferrara, an Italian nobleman, stands before a portrait of his first wife in this dramatic monologue. He is speaking to the envoy of a Count whose daughter the Duke seeks to make his second wife. |
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