AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Question
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Lord Byron
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Oscar Wilde
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Robert Browning
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William Wordsworth
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Detailed explanation-1: -My Last Duchess by Robert Browning.
Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Browning was a Victorian-era English poet and playwright. His works were characterised by irony, dark humour, social commentary, and a wide vocabulary. This is something that can be seen in this particular work, My Last Duchess.
Detailed explanation-3: -Looking as if she were alive. The speaker points out a lifelike portrait of his “last Duchess” that’s painted on the wall. This tells us that the speaker is a Duke, that his wife is dead, and that someone is listening to him describe his late wife’s portrait, possibly in his private art gallery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker (the Duke of Ferrara) directs the attention of a guest to a painting of his former wife, the Duchess of Ferrara, which hangs on the wall. The Duke praises the painting for looking so lifelike and then remarks on how hard the painter, Fra Pandolf, worked hard on it.