English 1022E Lecture 8: My Last Duchess

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Decasyllabic or heroic couplets (rhymed lambic pentameter) Creating speaking characters that are entirely not themselves: speaker not the poet, one or more listeners, occasion or event, interplay between the speaker and listeners, tension between admiration and repulsion. Simple to see what"s repulsive (line 13) about the duke. Hexameter six // also called alexandrines. The ending of king lear was changed to end happily // instead of cordelia dying. Page 1456 // introduction to the songs of innocence: singsong, childlike effect, happy songs ?? page 1455 // most famous and unsettling images in poetry. In-vis-i-ble // four syllables, when every other word is a single syllable. Most horrifying oxymoron in english // marriage into a hearse: 1480, line 3. The idea of aristocracy infected the people"s brains and made them think that they were invincible. Poetic rhythm: a, a, b, b, c, c, d, d, etc.