| Robot Orawning ? My dast Duoness . — hy Last Buchess' is. fate by Robert Cerosoning frequanlly arrthotor: ay lstan example of the viromtlin. Te. inst appeased. tn 1842. in Brownings‘ ia of the Reader hover ticker for a merrent HU Hie 2nd DB Lantiny isa triumph af Rroconings genius in tis gerne 1Of Peeing Sn My dash Boress He aspeakes 1s Alfonse Tithe fifty Buke of Fimara de jz a. widower whose wife Lind _ Recently «The ctway of a Aount has ito Aim --Iin Lownse of Showing the ervey his cot gallery “the. Duke stanols before she portrait of his last Duchess painted onthe wau and unsereening the Portrait Ae Speaks The uchese painted on te watt” Tha Buka ing reminiscing about the portrait Sessions, than penne herself poo starts with an abrupt cramatie tone- Thats my last dis musings fre way to a diatribe on her Aeagrace-fod behaviows ‘he Claims she {lrted worth Lupyone ard dick not oppreciate his “gift af o rine hundrnd year old name! As Ais Monologue Cortinuss He fead@r salirer with 2W/2- more | chatting jcarrty Hat the Duke infaat aausad Fhe Duchess early damise: When her behavior secalatad “They gowe eommands ;] Than al smiles stopped together’ aaa. 2: Fi Hewing rade _ this disclosioe tha Duke nekons to tre business at hand - [As the. Duke and tha emissary walk laawe he ‘pairrtig behird the Duke points out other notable artworks in his cottectian - cone rging for ancher dramioge , wih another youg girl| _ the Duke Lorrponts Wimbelt with The \Nephine. te ase This voy man is a Aonrotséenr of ot He says - “Notias Nepture, though, | Tanung @ Sea. horse, 10% 20 for mel"" “The Statue of Neptune” ing the prsphategieal Plofection of tho Ruke. and He ‘Taming <22-- forse’ is the Teves BD Aapietion of the Auchwss: He tonto! and re the people around him and hig wife is of M0 [ekeoption - _ ; Seem the very shaping af the poten Let ~The Anke is-Me typical product of an age- He tte _smopiburd Rengicsanae spimnt + _As regard style, what astonishes us is the wonderful brevity of Browning. The poem is a flamboyant instance of Browning's astounding genius of condensation. It is the concentrated picture of a whole life- ‘ume in just fifty six line. As phelps says that the poem could be extended into a three volume novel. Again, the epigrammatic terseness in no way renders the poem obscure. That Browning had the mastery of pictorial art is quiet evident here. We can almost see before our eyes “the half-flush that dies along the throat” and “the spot of joy” on the cheeks of the Dutchess and the impassioned glance of her eyes. Further, we can visualise the hall of the Duke’s palace at the end of which is the art gallery and the staircasedown the ground floor at the landing of which there lies the statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse. We can also see the orchard with cherry in fruition in the campus of the villa with a terrace round it where the Dutchess would ride on her white mule appreciating it with a gentle smile. The poem is written in heroic couplet but the flow of the verse containing the story is so easeful that we do not feel the effect of the heroic couplet and it seems to us that it is written in blank verse. To conclude: My last Dutchess is probably the most illustrious dramatic monologue of Browning. Browning's genius for condensation, the Duke’s failure to see the goodness of his Dutchess due to the death of his soul, the dramatic irony of Duke’s witlessness and his character being presented as a representative of the decadent renaissance spirit—through all these the poem has attained the pinnacle of success as a dramatic monologue.