Which other phrase from the poem provide the best
support for the answer to the plot of the poem?
"This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped
together." (Lines 45-46)
"As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet / The company
below then. I repeat," (Lines 47-48)
"The Count your master's known munificence / Is ample
warrant that no just pretence / Of mine for dowry will be
disallowed; / Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed/
At starting, is my object" (Lines 49-53)
"Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a
rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"
(Lines 54-56)
Question 7 of 25
DIRECTIONS: Read following text
and answer the associated questions
My Last Duchess
By: Robert Browning-1842
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Roughly Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a celebrated
English poet and playwright of the Victorian era in one of
Browning's most famous poems, "My Last Duchess," a Duke
gives a tour of his home to the servant of his prospective
new wife's family. As the Duke and the servant look at a
portrait of the Duke's previous wife on the wall, the Duke
criticizes her unreserved friendliness and kindness of spirit,
which could not be reconciled with the Duke's self-importance.
Many scholars believe that Browning's Duke is modeled after
the real-life Duke of Ferrara, whose young wife's mysterious
death raised questions of foul play and betrayal.
1) That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolfs' hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
5) Will't please you sit and look at her? I said
Frà Pandolf by design for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,"
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
10) The curtáin I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not
Her husband's presence only, called that spot
15) Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to sav 'Her mantle lans
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