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Week 7 Discussion

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Q Week 7: Robert Browning Jamie Johnson 99 unread replies.99 replies. Please answer one of the below questions and then respond to one fellow student post (for a total of two posts). Discuss the historical context of any one of Browning’s poems. What relationship does the poem have to problems and issues of the Victorian period? Why has Browning chosen to present them in a historical setting? (Please use the Victorian Introduction notes in Modules for this question.) How does the speaker of “My Last Duchess” reveal himself in his description of his deceased wife’s portrait? How does “My Last Duchess” comment on the relationship between women and art?

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“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is considered to be one of his best works which has been written in the form of a dramatic monologue. Like a true dramatic monologue there is one speaker who is the Duke of Ferrara and one silent listener who seems to be the ambassador who has come with the news of his second marriage.