Interpretation of Robert Brownings My Last Duchess :: essays research papers

I read a critical article on Robert toastings My Last Duchess. I confess it was harder to find something in the NCLCs than I wouldve thought. There was a considerable accumulation of critiques on Brownings work, but very teeny on My Last Duchess.The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem, and our reactions to him, stating that the utter outrageousness of the Dukes behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response The title of the article was Sympathy versus Judgment. Some of its points are that the Duke controls the entire poem, that it being a monologue was significant, and that he is almost easy to sympathize with and like. The article discusses Ferarras nature and his self-involvement which allows the goodness of the Duchess to shine through the Dukes utterance.It goes on to speak about kindness in general and how Browning delighted in making a case for the apparently immoral position, how he found dramatic monologues the beaver form to do so, an d how he went about it.It keeps going for a couple more(prenominal) pages on things which I will not go into because they have little relevance to any interpretation of My Last Duchess. The article as it pertained to my poem was fine I wish I could have found one which went into more depth as opposed to just discussing immoral characters and our empathy for them. I didnt particularly care for the lawyerly torrent of nomenclature that were used, either. I am not unlearned and appreciate the need for words of longer than two syllables when discussing literature (or anything more serious than an episode of Friends, in fact), but I found it more uncorrectable than usual to get through this article. I found it unconscionably wordy and it felt at times as though he was just stringing fancy words together because they looked all important lined up. However, thats just my opinion.I was gratified to see that this critic agreed with my interpretation of the Duchesss demise, viz., the Duke had her murdered. The theory mod by my brilliant and magnificent Professor had been that the Duke gave her so many orders and restrictions that she pined away. I had been looking at his famous line And I choose/never to stoop. He married her for her beauty but would never lower himself to tell her when she angered him.