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My Last Duchess (Context (About a Duke, Written by Robert Browning (1812…

- - - - Suggests he is treating her as a possesion
      - Also using a rhetorical question
      - Also uses a caesura doesn't ask for a response
    - - The fact that he keeps her painting behind a curtain suggest more control as he controls who sees the painting
      - Also he is keeping her locked away from the world suggesting that is what he wanted. Keep her away from everyone else
- - - - He thought that she was blushing because she found the painter attractive
    - - A possible foreshadowing of her death. Her throat could have been split
    - - Possible Justification for killing her
- - - - Could be alluding to someone that stole her virginity
      - He's angry that she wasn't a virgin before she married him