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Browning’s Use of Dramatic Monologue
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning - Ragavun Sivapalan - 10 Red - Mr Marsh 5 February 2002 Browning's Use of Dramatic Monologue My Last Duchess is written by Duke Ferrara, its style is 'Dramatic Monologue'. The purpose of this style of poem is to create a dramatic, gripping action-packed dialogue that is spoken by Duke Ferrara (Monologue). Throughout the whole poem, Ferrara's enthusiasm towards the Duchess is fuelled by his jealousy to her. The dramatic monologue and the use of rhyming couplets help create the correct mood through the poem, whether it is suspicion at the start or hatred at the end. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall" "Looking as if she were alive" As the reader, I can immediately see that the Duke has to reveal his power and control, just by the word "My and I". Further on in the poem, it tells us that the painting is behind a...
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