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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago

plz help asap w/ comparing my last duchess and my papas waltz

hello. Recently, there was a death in my girlfriends family. She took it very hard, and I spent much of the last week comforting her. I take an online ENG102 class, and haven't really had time to look at the work. Today, I finally logged on and saw I had an essay due by midnight tonight. I must compare the poem "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning, and "My Papa's Waltz," by Theodore Roethke. I have read both poems, but am having a great amount of trouble coming up with any mojor similarities. I am seeking any and all help. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation. Here, along with the poems, is the essay's guidelines.

  1. From the pairs of works (below), select one pair to compare in a clear, coherent, well-organized essay. More effective essay responses will discuss the works substantially and present specific information, examples, facts, and relevant telling details to support the writer's observations and assertions. They will also demonstrate mastery of the conventions of standard written American English.
  2. As part of your paper's introductory paragraph, be sure to identify the works you are discussing, their authors, and your paper's focus. You may discuss similarities, differences, or both. Rather than tell you reader about the works, explain the significance of the comparisons or contrasts (e.g., what do you discover in comparing them?, how do the works and their details shed light on one another?, and why is that discovery noteworthy?).
  3. In subsequent paragraphs develop your main idea and points of comparison. Explain clearly what you think and why. Spell out the relationship between the works (your interpretation or "critical point"), your supporting points, and the details of the works themselves.
  4. Write to inform; provide specific information to back up what you say. Use relevant details (key words, phrases, comments, or quotations) from the literature to develop and reinforce your main and supporting points; please quote accurately and provide a context for quotations (i.e., identify the speaker, the audience, and the situation in which the remark is made).


  5. My Last Duchess

    http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275diction.htm my last duchess painted on the wall,
    Looking as if she were alive. I call
    That piece a wonder, now; http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275pandolf.htm hands
    Worked busily a day, and there she http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275period.htm
    Will't please you sit and look at her? http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275said.htm
    "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read
    Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
    That depth and passion of its earnest glance,
    But to myself they turned (http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275since.htm none puts by
    The curtain drawn for you, but I) [10]
    And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
    How such a glance came there; so not the first
    Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 't was not
    Her husband's presence only, called that spot
    Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps
    Fra Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps
    Over my lady's wrist too much" or "Paint
    Must never hope to reproduce the faint
    Half-flush that dies along her throat:" such stuff
    Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough [20]
    For calling up that spot of joy. She had
    A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad,
    Too easily impressed: she liked whate'er
    She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
    http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275argue.htm My favour at her breast,
    The dropping of the daylight in the West,
    The bough of cherries some officious fool
    Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
    She rode with round the terrace -all and each
    Would draw from her alike the approving speech, [30]
    Or blush,at least.http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275hyphen.htm - good! but thanked
    Somehow - I know not how - as if she ranked
    My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
    With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame
    This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
    In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will
    Quite clear to such a one, and say, "Just this
    Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss
    Or there exceed the mark"- and if she let
    Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set [40]
    Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse
    - E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose
    Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
    Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
    Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
    http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275neptune.htm There she stands
    As if alive. Will 't please you rise? We'll meet
    The company below, then. I repeat,
    The Count your master's known munificence
    Is ample warrant that no just pretence [50]
    Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
    Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed
    At starting is my object. Nay, we'll go
    Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
    Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,
    Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronzehttp://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275closure.htm.


    My Papa's Waltz
    The whiskey on your breath
    Could make a small boy dizzy;
    But I hung on like death:
    Such waltzing was not easy.

    We romped until the pans
    Slid from the kitchen shelf;
    My mother's countenance
    Could not unfrown itself.

    The hand that held my wrist
    Was battered on one knuckle;
    At every step you missed
    My right ear scraped a buckle.

    You beat time on my head
    With a palm caked hard by dirt,
    Then waltzed me off to bed
    Still clinging to your shirt.
  

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deareset friend' My name is Mike I`m having difficulty to in comparing the poems my last duchess and my papas waltz poems Thanx and *** bless you

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deareset friend'

My name is Mike I`m having difficulty to in comparing the poems my last duchess and my papas waltz poems

Thanx and *** bless you

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