English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: My Last Duchess, Spondee, Trochee

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That"s my last duchess panted on the wall. Poetry : most important is the iambic, with one soft stress followed by hard stress, second is the trochaic, with one hard stress followed by soft stress, spondee, spondaic, with two hard stresses, pyrrhic, with two soft stresses. In 1842, right after queen victoria came to power: men went to clubs to smoke cigars; women covered their bodies, a very hierarchized culture. They came up with a number of devices. William blake, page 1410 : takes entertaining children stories into something darker, page 1420 the sick rose . A rose normally something for children, something happy, but it is. Worm has eaten away at rose worm was associated with devil, and so it could mean that, or repressed sexual desire, or illness: page 1422 london . Everything is controlled, everything marks weakness and woe.

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