罗伯特·勃朗宁(Robert Browning)英文PPT

The first reason to success
The style and structure of this poem play a significant role in the effect of the poem. Browning uses many techniques, including a simple rhyme scheme, enjambment, and caesura to convey various characteristics and qualities about the speaker and the situation. Browning uses an AA BB rhyme scheme, which is very common to ballads and songs.
Unit 11 Victorian Poets
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Born: 7 May 1812 Birthplace: London Died: 12 December 1889 Best Known As: 19th century (Victorian) British poet
In this poem Browning develops an idiolect for Ferrara to reveal his pride and cold-bloodedness Many miss the point and are astonished. "You say what? there's nothing in the poem about him killing her! where do you find that? A century and more ago, when Browning still lived, readers presented him with questions about this poem. He answered them cautiously, almost as if he had not written the poem but was seeing it himself, Attentively, after a very long time and was trying to understand what had happened.
The picture is kept hidden
behind a curtain
Where the Duke can enjoy it by himself When the Duke draws back the curtain the envoy sees in the Duchess’expression:
THE END
§ Elizabeth § She
and her husband Robert had a great love affair, almost like a movie. Browning was six years younger than his wife. They ran away to Italy to get married.
A poem can stir all of the senses, and the subject matter of a poem can range from being funny to being sad. I hope that you like this poem and the
sentiments in the words of My Last Duchess ,you will find even more poem lyrics and meaningful things by this famous author.
42--E'en then would be some stooping; and I chuse Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. § The mad duke cannot love without so possessing and destroying the identity of his wife that he kills her wife and lives with her dead substitute, as a work of art.
This means the poem is written in the “voice’ of a character rather than the voice of the poet.
What is the poem about ?
§ The character --The Duke of Ferrara, And he is speaking to his visitors （ The count’s envoy ) about his dead wife - the Duchess. The starting point is a portrait on the wall。 The visitors has been sent to discuss a dowry, as the Duke is looking for a new wife - the next duchess. While they are talking the conversation turns to the portrait of the Duke’s dead wife.
My Last Duchess
Background
§The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics .
§ As is typical of Browning's poems,"My Last Duchess" is written as a dramatic monologue: monologue: one speaker relates the entire poem as if to another person present with him.
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For example, he seems jealous that he was not able to monopolize his former duchess' smiles for himself.
When the Duchess was alive, the Duke could not control her smile and love for life and he considered her unfaithful. It is thought that he poisoned her because of these suspicions.
§ When
talking about Robert Browning, we have to mention his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. was a famous poet, too. She wrote many sonnets, a type of 14 line poem, the same as Shakespeare did.
Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned . ^^^^^^
The high tide of this poet