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Anonymous,
2 yr 251 days ago
Hi I am studying this poem ofr school and i need some help! I need to comapre 'My Last Duchess' and 'The Telephone Call' by Fleur Adcock! I really need some hel i have wrtieen 3 pages on it so far i just need to know what i have missed! Thanks!
Anonymous,
2 yr 251 days ago
Hi you have helped me alot but i have been having constant trouble with the vocabulary of the poem, like what effect does it have. If you have any points please tell me! Thanks alot
Anonymous,
2 yr 244 days ago
hi, i have to explain the circumstances in which this poem is spoken
if anyone can help me that would be great
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Rocker Kitty Baby
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Sun, 25 Mar 07 12:30 AM
hi, im writing a piece on this poem and i need some help asap
im writing about:
the circumstance in which this peom is spoken
thanks in advance
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Anonymous,
2 yr 239 days ago
1That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
2Looking as if she were alive. I call
3That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
4Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
5Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said
6"Frà Pandolf" by design, for never read
7Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
8The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
9But to myself they turned (since none puts by
10The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
11And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
12How such a glance came there; so, not the first
13Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not
14Her husband's presence only, called that spot
15Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps
16Frà Pandolf chanced to say, "Her mantle laps
17Over my Lady's wrist too much," or "Paint
18Must never hope to reproduce the faint
19Half-flush that dies along her throat"; such stuff
20Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
21For calling up that spot of joy. She had
22A heart . . . how shall I say? . . . too soon made glad,
23Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er
24She looked on, and her looks went everywhere
poetic devices such as pan, imagenery, personification
Anonymous,
2 yr 215 days ago
"What is the 'literary purpose' of this dramatic monologue?" <--- any ideas as to what that's supposed to mean? Thanks. ![Smile [:)]](/emoticons/emotion-1.gif)
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Pinkie!!
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Sun, 29 Apr 07 05:17 PM
ah this is the post! ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/emotion-2.gif)
i made a thread earlier about what effect enjambment makes to the poem...i know this has a conversational effect but i am having problems expanding my explanation behond that ![Tongue Tied [:S]](/emoticons/emotion-7.gif) please help
thank you!
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Mon, 30 Apr 07 06:49 PM
We had this poem in our college course last semester, and I find MrP's analysis really impressive. Now, I'm actually regretting not logging into EF more since I got into uni! ![Stick out tongue [:P]](/emoticons/emotion-4.gif)
Thanks for this thread, it's an absorbing read for us Browning-lovers and lit students!
![Rose [F]](/emoticons/emotion-66.gif)
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God help you if you are a phoenix And you dare to rise up from the ash A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy While you are just flying past - Ani DiFranco (32 Flavours)
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MrPedantic
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Wed, 02 May 07 10:40 PM
I'm glad it was useful, TJ! (At 23 pages, there ought to be something useful in it...)
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