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Ashley Nicole Posted 20 years ago
Robert Browning's My Last Duchess
I am having a problem paraphrasing Line 25 "My favour at her breast" and lines 49 through 51 "The count your master's known munificence, Is ample warrant that no just pretense, Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;"
My assignment is much longer but these are the two areas to which I am having trouble, my assignment is for Lit 142 a first year poetry class. Any help in the understanding of the meaning in these two areas of the poem would be much appreciated.
My assignment is much longer but these are the two areas to which I am having trouble, my assignment is for Lit 142 a first year poetry class. Any help in the understanding of the meaning in these two areas of the poem would be much appreciated.
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Ashley Nicole I am having a problem paraphrasing Line 25 "My favour at her breast" and lines 49 through 51 "The count your master's known munificence, Is ample warrant that no just pretense, Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;" for "My favour at her Breast", could it be the narrator talking about their sexual relationship? Or, more likely, him being closest to her heart - her favourite person, in other words. It would tie into the theme of the poem - That of Jealousy and bitterness of the duchess treating everyone with as much compassion as she showed the narrator, and the consequences of this (her death).
- Ashley Nicole I am having a problem paraphrasing Line 25 "My favour at her breast" and lines 49 through 51 "The count your master's known munificence, Is ample warrant that no just pretense, Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;" for "My favour at her Breast", could it be the narrator talking about their sexual relationship?
- Or, more likely, him being closest to her heart - her favourite person, in other words.
- It would tie into the theme of the poem - That of Jealousy and bitterness of the duchess treating everyone with as much compassion as she showed the narrator, and the consequences of this (her death).
- For the next quote, a dictionary will be helpful.
- Mu·nif·i·cence n.
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Ashley NicoleI am having a problem paraphrasing Line 25 "My favour at her breast" and lines 49 through 51 "The count your master's known munificence, Is ample warrant that no just pretense, Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;"for "My favour at her Breast", could it be the narrator talking about their sexual relationship? Or, more likely, him bein
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