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Browning's "My Last Duchess": paragon and parergon. (poet Robert Browning)

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:Dupras, Joseph A.

Many readings of Robert Browning's 'The Last Duchess' have indicated that this poem, which is a dramatic model of excellence, more than just affects or rivets the attention of its readers. The dramatic monologue also sketches a verbal picture for its readers through the eyes of its characters. Reading such a poem draws its viewers to empathize with its characters while feeling like an outside ornamental addition.

There is here a problem of framing, of bordering and delimitation, whose analysis must be very finely detailed if it wishes to ascertain the effects of fiction.

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