My Last Duchess

• My Last Duchess was written by:

  Robert Browning
• The Duke points at-


  a portrait of his now dead wife
• the duke hated the duchess friendly personality and at the end alluded that he-


  got her killed.
• My Last Duchess, 'my' is a personal pronoun cannoting the dukes-

  possessive nature that he had while the duchess was alive and now that she is dead.
• power of humans