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 1. The speaker is a character quite separate from the poet. The dramatis personae coincides with the Duke of Ferrara who lived during Renaissance period. The writer drew inspiration from history.

2.

a)The listener

Line 5: Will't please you sit and look at her?
Line 7: Strangers like you
Line 13: are you to turn and ask thus. Sir...
Line 25: Sir
Line 43: Oh sir
Line 47: Will't please you rise? We'll meet...
Line 53-54: We'll go / together down, sir. Notice Neptune...

b) The present situation
The situation the speaker hints at seems to be not important for his life. He has a distant attitude during all the monologue.

c) The subject matter

1. The portrait is the link that bind together the past and the present: the past resurfaces while the Duke and his listener are looking at the picture.
2. Jealous and possessive: he finds unbearable the Duchess's attitude to be kind with everyone. He wasn't the center of her attentions.
Proud: " e'en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop." He can't tolerate Duchess's behavior because she had lowered his honor.
Cool: he tells the story in a detach way. Frequent use of expressions that express emotional distance. (such stuff, that, she had a heart, too soon made glad, too easily impressed, she liked whatever, her looks went everywhere...)
Class-conscious: he is aware of the importance of his " nine-hundred-years-old name".
3. The reader consider the Duke brutal.

d) The language

1. There she stands (line 4)
2.
3. Will't please you rise? (line 47)
4. We'll meet (line 47)
5. Lines 29-31; 39-42
6. I know not how (line 31)

e) The tone is cool and detached

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In My Last Duchess the setting is the city of Ferrara during the Renaissance. The imaginary speaker is the Duke of Ferrara who is addressing a emissary of the Count whose daughter he intends to marry. While negotiating the marriage, he shows him a portrait of his last wife and talks about her. Two very different personalities emerge in the poem. The young wife flushes with joy at very simple things- the sunset, the cherries and white mule; she is kind to everybody including people of lower ranks. The Duke finds it unbearable that she puts the same value on, for example, a "bough of cherries" as on the gift of his nine-hundred-year-old name. He is proud, class-conscious and possessive. He reveals himself as a tyrant who wants to have absolute control over his wife. As he was unable to, he "gave commands then all smiles stopped together". As the men are going below the Duke expresses his confidence that the Count will grant his reasonable request for an ample " dowry", quickly adding "though his fair daughter's self in my object". His last remark is about a sculpture of Neptune "taming a sea-horse" which is a visual metaphor for the Duke's wish to tame those under his control.