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conflict
conflict between how the speaker presents himself and who he actually is
power
browning is criticising the absolute power the speaker had over his wife
my last duchess
possesive pronoun , implies she is like property a sense of owner
A heart- shall I say ? - too soon made glad
use of interrogative phrase indicates how its not just her husband who can make her blush , easily pleased
who passed without much the same smile
rhetorical question conveys the Dukes arrogance that his duchess shared the same smile with everyone else not just him
I gave commands then all smiles stopped
the declarative phrase '' I gave commands'' is indicating that he had his wife killed to stop her rom smiling at others
comparison poems
checking out me history ; the abuse of power and the power of identity
ozymandias ; compare the fact that the duke craves power with the dead kings attributes and desires
context
based on the llife of an Victorian Duke from the sixteenth century called Alonso the Duke of Ferrera
key themes
power of humans, control jealousy , possesivness , political and sociapower
structure
ryhming couplets and iambic pentameter mirrors Dukes controlling nature