My Last Duchess

• ‘There’s my last duchess painted on the wall’
• ‘Will’t please you sit and look at her’
• ‘I said’
• ‘None puts by the curtain I have drawn for you’
• ‘Twas not her husbands presence only, called that spot of joy’
• ‘Paint must never hope to reproduce the faint half-flush that dies along her throat’
• ‘Such stuff was courtesy, she thought’
• ‘Too soon made glad, too easily impressed’
• ‘Her looks went everywhere’
• ‘My gift of a nine-hindered-years name’
• ‘I gave commands’
• ’Then all smiles stopped together’
• ‘As if alive, Will’t you please rise’
• ‘Notice Neptune though, Taming a sea-horse’
• Main theme: Power and controlling nature over Duchess caused suffering - Duchess fault