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        <title><![CDATA[As revealed in this dramatic monlogue, the Duke prizes the painting of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As revealed in this dramatic monlogue, the Duke prizes the painting of his wife, but what is the Duke’s approach to art?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the two terms have become conflated, which is to say they may be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the two terms have become conflated, which is to say they may be used interchangeably.  To dilineate a difference is to split hairs, I think.  And it is akin to snobbery.  I make no distinction between the two.
The speaker's voice or tone in "My Last Duchess" is one of arrogance, jealousy, misogyny, and patriarchy.  He sees women as objects, like the very painting he illustrates to the messenger.  He prides himself on his 900...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:22:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the Duke's voice in "My Last Duchess"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the Duke's voice in "My Last Duchess"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:23:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem, "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem, "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which the narrator alludes to the Roman god Neptune, "Notice Neptune, though,/taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity." This is a significant allusion in a couple of ways.
Neptune was a God of the sea, but Poseidon seemed to be much more predominant. In fact Neptune became more noted for ruling horses and horse racing than he was for ruling the sea. Thus the allusion to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:31:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the allusion used in the poem "My last Duchess" by Robert Browning?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the allusion used in the poem "My last Duchess" by Robert Browning?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:42:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem, "My Last Duchess," Browning creates a narrator who conveys...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the poem, "My Last Duchess," Browning creates a narrator who conveys the distinct displeasure he feels at the perceived infidelities of his wife. There is some question as to the sanity of the narrator as he can calmly talk about the beautiful picture of his wife, then transition into tales of her betrayal, and then calmly explain that he was not willing to compromise so he gave the words to have her killed, all the while keeping the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:12:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Comparison between the poems The Last Duchess and Laboratory of the poet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Comparison between the poems The Last Duchess and Laboratory of the poet Browing.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:46:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator can be described as darkly ironic, bitter, possibly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator can be described as darkly ironic, bitter, possibly paranoid, and perhaps slightly evil. The entire monologue is a discourse about his late wife who since her death has been reduced to nothing more than another one of his beautiful objects of art. He casually reveals to his visitor that he thought she could be swayed emotionally by minor things such as meaningless compliments or trivial pursuits.
He indicates that she had a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:28:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some words or adjectives describing the speaker in "My Last...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some words or adjectives describing the speaker in "My Last Duchess"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:03:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[comprasion between the poems ''last duchess and laboratory of the poet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[comprasion between the poems ''last duchess and laboratory of the poet Browing?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:13:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title of Browning's poem is very appropriate because he is referring...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title of Browning's poem is very appropriate because he is referring to his murdered wife while shopping for a new wife in front of the duchess' portrait. The poem develops and the reader chillingly implies that the duke gave the duchess "commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together;" in other words, he killed his wife or ordered her to be killed by someone else.
The duke accuses his dead wife of flirting with any "officious fool" whom...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:39:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Imagine a wealthy, powerful man who is in between wives.  (There are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Imagine a wealthy, powerful man who is in between wives.  (There are probably men around just like this right now!)  He is showing someone around his house, and he points to a portrait. He says, "That's my last wife."  He might emphasize the word "last" as he says this. What would you think of this man?  I would think he is someone who "collects" women as trophies or objects, someone who is now looking for a new object to collect. (In...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:16:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is the title "My Last Duchess" appropriate? How does it bring out...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is the title "My Last Duchess" appropriate? How does it bring out the Dukes attitude about the duchess and women in general?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:44:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "My Last Duchess," the speaker is a duke. He is showing a portrait of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/last-duchess/q-and-a/explain-thats-my-last-dutches-such-glancecame-96239</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "My Last Duchess," the speaker is a duke. He is showing a portrait of his "last" wife to an unnamed viewer. No one ever looks at the picture except the duke. It is remarkably lifelike, and was painted by a very great and well-regarded painter. The duke is very proud of this fact. (He likes to brag!) The duke is remarking on the joy in the woman's expression in the painting. It is his opinion that his former wife was a flirt, and that her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:58:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually, the line you quote here isn't from "My Last Duchess," but is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, the line you quote here isn't from "My Last Duchess," but is instead from MacFlecknoe.  Both, of course, are by John Dryden.  My guess is that you were looking at a list of Dryden's poems and chose the second alphabetical one by mistake.  Regardless, let's take the final lines of the quote in order to answer to your question:

Pale with envy, Singleton forsworeThe lute and sword, which he in triumph bore,And vowed he ne’er would...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:27:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please explain, "My warbling lute . . . / . . . The lute and sword which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please explain, "My warbling lute . . . / . . . The lute and sword which he in triumph bore . . ." from John Dryden's "My Last Duchess."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:41:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the following line: "That's my Last Duchess....such a glance...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the following line: "That's my Last Duchess....such a glance came there."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:16:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Robert Browing's "My Last Duchess," Fra Pandolf is not only the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Robert Browing's "My Last Duchess," Fra Pandolf is not only the painter--"Fra Pandolf's hands/Worked busily a day--but he is also the cause of "The depth and passion of its earnest glance" in "that pictured countenance."
The duke tells the viewer of the portrait that no one ever views this beautiful portrait without wondering "How such a glance came there."  It was not, the duke continues, "Her husband's presence" that causes the blush,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:50:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Fra pandolf important in "My Last Duchess"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why is Fra pandolf important in "My Last Duchess"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:43:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Duke is used to being catered to and almost worshipped  for who he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Duke is used to being catered to and almost worshipped  for who he is and for his very old and respected family name. He speaks to the Count's representative in an authoratative, almost condescending tone, and hints that he will not tolerate anyone who does not treat him with the respect he feels he deserves. He speaks of the look on his last duchess' face:

Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot Of joy into the...]]></description>
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