Who'd stoop to blame/This sort of trifling? - He won’t lower himself to approach the Duchess about her behaviour (silliness, immaturity)., "Just this/Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,/Or there exceed the mark" - He imagines himself telling her about her behaviour., --E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose/Never to stoop. - Repetition is used to emphasise how much he cares about status – ‘stooping’ to someone else’s level is something he will not do., she smiled, no doubt,/Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without/Much the same smile? - Rhetorical question shows his annoyance at how she reacted to other men. Repeated idea of jealousy emphasises anger., Will 't please you rise? - Rhetorical question and invite show his power and control., This grew; I gave commands;/Then all smiles stopped together. - The euphemism emphasises his power – he is so powerful that he doesn’t need to even say the word ‘killed'., Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands - The caesura (full stop in middle of line) puts emphasis on how her life is quickly cut off as well as the source of his unhappiness – the smiles for other men., Notice Neptune, though,/Taming a sea-horse, - Neptune being the mythical God of the Sea and the Duke pointing it out suggests he believes he is like Neptune and ‘taming’ his wives is like Neptune taming seahorses., The Count your master's known munificence/Is ample warrant that no just pretence/Of mine for dowry will be disallowed - The Duke suggests that there should not be a problem with the dowry due to the Count’s generosity., Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! - Another boastful mention of an artist., Patriarchal society and toxic masculinity - The reasons behind the Duke's elevated sense of self as a man.,
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My Last Duchess - Digging Deeper Part 2
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