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Power and conflict poetry
My last duchess
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Hollie Stevenson
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Cards (11)
A
heart-
how
shall
I
say?-
too
soon made
glad
, Too easily
impressed
My
gift
of a
nine hundred years old name
Will‘t
please
you
sit
and
look
at her?
We’ll
meet
the company
below,
then.
all
smiles
stopped
together
use of
possessive
pronoun
my
Spot
of
joy
(
Which I have not
)
Officious
fool
My last
duchess
structure
One long
stanza-
shows how
overwhelmed
the duke is and the power of objects to create emotions and memories
Use of frequent enjambment to show
breathlessness
of the
Duke
and therefore lack of human power