Two Personalities in My Last Duchess

Two Personalities in My Last Duchess


The poem "My Last Duchess" is about a powerful Duke, and his
beautiful, flirtatious wife who has two different personalities, one
that was reality and the other was the lady in the painting. The poem begins
and ends with him mourning the loss of his deceased Duchess, but from the
way that the mighty Duke speaks, he knows more about her death than he leads
us to believe. The Duke chooses his word very carefully, when he talks to
his friend about the painting of his wife. He only drops small hints, to his
friend about the death of his Duchess. Which leads me to believe that the
Duke killed his wife, or had someone to put her to her death.
As the Duke speaks of his Duchess, in the beginning, he sounds extremely
compassionate and caring towards her. The Duke had an absolute love for his
Duchess as most hus...