Thank you, Tamara, for these great notes!
Victorian Era has a different view on nature, because they see it as calyst, instead of putting themselves in it
dramatic monologue (title gives it away)
dramatic – tells a story
monologue – one person is talking
so therefore dramatic monologue is a person talking like a poem or story form
addresses somebody with a purpose
reveals a lot about the narrator (gives hints)
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
shady like, not really sure what’s going on exactly
set in a 16th century castle in italy
aduca ferrera wife dies 3 years of marriage, began to seek remarriage, gets “match-making” person aka m-m person
has a painting of her that he mentions at the beginning of the poem, before he goes of to interview some eligible women
no one can pull over the curtain except him
talks about his late wife fondly, “she had a heart to soon made glad . . .” she looked at everything; she liked other men “. . . she liked everything he saw. . .“
“serve was all on, the dropping of the day light in the west”
“officious foul” is a guy
900 year old name, his last name is of high status power
she; late wife, doesn’t take his name as something special, she treats it as it were any other gift, nothing from her husband is special to her he says
he says he could have pointed out some of her flaws, but that would mean stooping down to her
doesn’t like her smiling at other people
he told her to stop and then all smiles stopped altogether, he was a very jealous man, he ordered his wife’s’ because she took more enjoyment in other things over him, so he got something to kill his wife
him and m-m person are walking down the hallway and he points out the statue of neptune the sea king beside his wife’s painting
he covers the painting because her attention to her husband kind of wondered in life
smiles at everyone
liked/looks at everything
she looked as if she is still alive, so now that she is dead he choses when she looks at anything
he seems to treat women as property, livestock as something that he owns
Bronte Sisters
3 sisters; Emily and Anne are the most famous
Song – Poem by Emily Bronte
linnet – small finch kinda fly
moor-lark – a bird
wild deer browse above her breast?
the poem is talking about someone that is dead in a cemetery
pathetic fallacy – when nature matches the mood of the person
Well, let them fight for honors breath/ or pleasure’s shade pursue – -/ the dweller in the land of death/ is changed and careless too. ? what does this mean?
“pleasure shade” its like trying to chase after the wind, it doesn’t last forever
“the dweller in the land of death”/is changed and careless too” she’s dead she doesn’t care
“and if their eyes should watch and weep till sorrows were dry” they that miss her can cry all they want but she won’t flinch, she’s gone
[just to add a thought here= Bronte seems to show the Victorian idea of nature being somewhat indifferent to human existence and suffering...ex: the deer walking along above the grave]
