Understanding the poem 'My Last Duchess'
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I can explain the events of 'My Last Duchess' and the relevant contextual ideas that surround it.
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The poem depicts a Duke showing an envoy a painting of his late wife.
The poem was written during the Victorian period, marked for its strict morality and patriarchal society.
Browning uses the poem as an attack on the biased, overbearing views of Victorian society and archaic hierarchy.
Browning sets the poem in the Italian Renaissance, perhaps to disguise his social criticism of Victorian society.
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