I believe that the lover who he is writing to, they had a secret affair and they got found out.
“I here thy name spoken, And share in its shame.”
This is saying that people are talking about him in same because he has done something wrong.
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is about a painting of a mans last wife, and how they broke up.
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall. Looking as if she was alive.”
This is just telling us that he did have a wife but she is no longer alive.
He is talking to some one that will find him another bride.
“Though his fair daughters self,
This tells us that he doesn’t really care for his last Duchess and that he is already moving on to his next wife.
We also know that he killed his last Duchess.
“I gave the command, then all smiles stopped together.
This tells the reader that he didn’t actually kill her himself but got his servants to do it for him.
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats its about a lonely knight roaming around a swamp land trying to find this lady that he had seen before and fallen in love with.
“O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms Alone and palely loitering?”
This is telling us that he is just walking aimlessly around.
“I met a lady in the meads, full beautiful – a faery’s child”
This tells us that he did meet a beautiful woman.
The major similarities of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “When We Two Parted” is that the woman in the relation ship left the man and the man is upset and wants the woman back, whilst in “My Last Duchess” it is the man that end with the woman and he isn’t upset at all and he just moves on to the next person.
In When We Two Parted” the poet uses many language and poetic techniques, the poem is in 1st person narrative text, the narrator uses lots of hash, cold words like Cold, and Silence. this gives the affect of a harsh painful breakup.
The poet also uses personal pronouns.?
In “My Last Duchess” there are many language and poetic techniques, such as ?
In La Belle Dame Sans Merci there are many language and poetic techniques, such as Personal pronouns.
“I sat her on my pacing steed.”
In this part of the poem the man thinks that he is in control because he says I sat her, this gives the impression that the man is in control but really he’s not.
In La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad this means that it is like a song and it tells a story, all ballads have and extinctive rhythm and they rhyme.
The structure for When We Two Parted is very simple each stander has 8 lines the are four standers and the rhyming scheme goes A, B A, B
When We Two Parted is very similar to La Belle Sans Merci in that the woman left the man and has left him unhappy depressed and upset whilst My Last Duchess the man had the woman killed.
La Belle Sans Merci and My Last Duchess are similar in away because in My Last Duchess the man is in control over the woman whilst in La Belle Sans Merci the man thinks he is in control but when the woman puts a spell on him he is in her control.
My favorite poem out of the 3 has to be My Last Duchess I think that is the best written one because the way the poet hides the fact that the man killed his duchess and where he describes the statue of Neptune in the mans house. I think La Belle Sans Merci get across the message of love and lost the best were it describes the knight wondering the marshes looking for the woman he love.
