The use of the Dramatic monologue in the Last Duchess
"My Last Duchess"
Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue, a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker, we the reader must wonder carefully what the Duke is telling us, and we often have to read between the lines in order to keep an objective perspective on the what is happening in the poem. This paper …
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…so, through use of grammatical techniques, irony and imagery Browning further establishes these traits. Through the enjambments, caesura and heroic verses the cold and calculating tone of the Duke is created. Through irony readers are forced to "read between the lines" to uncover the Dukes true revelations of his last duchess. And last, but not least, imagery allows the readers to view the last duchess as good woman and the Duke as calculating and evil.
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