GCSE Poetry

• Question Answer
• - an Italian Duke
• who **murdered**
• his first wife & is
• now preparing for
• his second
• - tells this story of
• his first marriage to
• a visitor, whilst
• looking at a portrait
• of his first wife
• - it is a **subtle**
• poem that
• **condemns the
• stranglehold** that
• What is My Lastthose in power
• Duchess have on those
• about? below them
• - Poem was written
• around the time of
• Revolution** after
• which people say
• more class mobility
• & freedom leading
• to more poets such
• What is the as Browning
• **contextual** **voicing
• significance of progressive
• the Industrial attitudes within
• Revolution? their poems**
• - Society was still
• **highly unequal**,
• as it was still
• patriarchal (male-
• dominated) leading
• Browning to
• **shield his
• criticism** via time
• & setting
• - Therefore the