My Last Duchess

• Notice Neptune, though

  
  

  Neptune is the god of the sea in Roman mythology. Emphasises how the Duke views himself as equal in power and status to God. The sea could be used to signify how even the purest waters can not undo what murders he has committed
• There she stands as if alive

  
  

  Although the duchess is dead, it is almost as if she is still alive and defying him. Emphasising how the Duke had kept her behind a curtain only he has access to.
• I gave commands then all smiles stopped together
• Much the same smile?
• My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
• She thanked men, - good!
• the white mule she rode with
• the bough of cherries some officious fool
• her looks went everywhere
• A heart - how shall I say?
• calling up that spot of joy. She had
• half-flush that dies along her throat
• spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek:
• The curtain I have drawn for you, but I
• Will't please you sit and look at her?
• Fra Pandolf's hands worked busily a day