My last duches

• That’s my last duches

  Posseive pronouns

  suggests multiple wives / isn’t last wife
• Painted on the wall


  Can never be sold

  part of his property
• As if she were alive

  Sinister tone
• The depth and passion of its earnest glance

  Juxterposition, trying to justify her death as she ‘flirted’ with another man
• The curtain I have drawn for you


  still controlling her gaze after death
• Fra


  Meaning brother, religious showing the irrationality
• Half-flush that dies along her throat


  Cause of her death
• Her looks went everywhere

  Accusation of disloyalty
• As if she ranked my gift of an in+hundred year old name with anybody’s gift

  Ego thinks marriage is the best gift
• Or that in you disgusts me


  He is disgusted and feels only negative about it
• I gave commands then all smiles top together


  Shows his control and power over others

  no longer alive as he hired someone to kill her
• Notice Neptune though, taming a sea horse


  Wants full contorl, leading attention away from the picture
• Dramatic monologue were the duke does not stop, highlights man’s arrogance
• Enjambment with rhyming suggests that people don’t even notice his deception. Also it empties it is natural to him
• Key themes


  • abuse of power
  • mans power
  • control over women
• Comparison Pomes 


  • ozymandius
  • london
  • checking out me history
  • extract from the prelude