� Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj’s� Shrimati Vimalaben Khimaji Tejookaya (SVKT),� Arts, Science and Commerce College, Deolali Camp, Nashik�
SYBA Special English
Paper I: Appreciating Poetry
Term : II
Topic: My Last Duchess
Subject Teacher: Dr. Kiran Rakibe
Department of English
SVKT College, Deolali Camp. Nashik
Personal Information
Date: 30Dec. 2020
Faculty Name: Dr. Kiran Rakibe
LMS user Name: rakibe.kiran@mvpsvktcollege.ac.in
Course: SYBA
Year: 2020-21
Subject: Special English I
Lecture
Session Name: My Last Duchess
Asynchronous Lecture: 5
Intended Date of Publishing: 02.01.2021
Recap
Session Agenda
Learning objectives
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatic: The poem is dramatic in the sense
that it has a theatrical quality; that is, the poem
is meant to be read.
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Monologue: Mono + logue (discourse)
Speech by a single person
Dramatic Monologue
Single speaker� Listener(s)� Dramatic situation� Heroic qualities� Conflict� Revelation of characters�
Characteristics of Dramatic Monologue
Single speaker: The Duke of Ferrara� Listener(s): An emissary � Dramatic situation: Visit by the envoy� Heroic Qualities: Heroic Couplet� Conflict: Dukes Vs Duchess’ behavior� Revelation of characters: Dukes as well as � that of Duchess��
My Last Duchess
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,�Looking as if she were alive. I call�That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands�Worked busily a day, and there she stands.�Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said�“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read�Strangers like you that pictured countenance,�The depth and passion of its earnest glance,�But to myself they turned (since none puts by�The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)�And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,�How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not�Her husband’s presence only, called that spot�Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps�Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps�Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint�Must never hope to reproduce the faint�Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff�Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough�For calling up that spot of joy. She had�A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,�Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er�She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.�
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Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,�The dropping of the daylight in the West,�The bough of cherries some officious fool�Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule�She rode with round the terrace—all and each�Would draw from her alike the approving speech,�Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked�Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked�My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name�With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame�This sort of trifling? Even had you skill�In speech—which I have not—to make your will�Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this�Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,�Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let�Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse—�E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose�Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,�Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without�Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;�Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands�As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet�The company below, then. I repeat,�The Count your master’s known munificence�Is ample warrant that no just pretense
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;�Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed�At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go�Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,�Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,�Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!�
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���1. What are cha features of dramatic monologue?��2. Write down the character sketch of Duchess.��3. Write a note on character of the Duke of Ferrara.���� Send your answers on:� rakibe.kiran@mvpsvktcollege.ac.in
Session Assignment
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