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Aubree Monares Literature 22 October 2017 Blog Post #6- My Last Duchess It is revealed in the poem “My Last Duchess,” that the speaker, the Duke of Ferrara, is arrogant and controlling. According to the poem, we can infer that he cares a lot about money, and he is prideful and thinks he is superior. The Duke’s arrogance and jealousy is shown in his attitude towards his social status and family name. It seems as though the Duke of Ferrara is jealous that his Duchess found pleasure and happiness in other people and things. This behavior is controlling and resentful because a woman should be able to find joy and delight in people and nature without worrying about offending her partner. It is obvious that the Duke believes that the Duchess had not respected him to the level that he deserved. The Duke is also prideful, because despite his feelings of resentment towards his wife, he would never “stoop” to express how he felt. Instead, it is implied that the Duke ordered the D...

Aubree Monares Literature 15 September 2017 Blog Post #5- Choice 2 While viewing “Song of Lunch,” I enjoyed being able to watch the poem as if it were a movie. However, the narrator’s actions made me increasingly uncomfortable throughout the production. I enjoyed viewing the poem because I was able to connect with the characters and really understand how the author intended the audience to feel while encountering the poem. The setting added detail to the production. The grey, natural, earthy tones that enveloped the setting   suggested feelings of sorrow, longing, and an over-all gloomy atmosphere. The chatter in the background made the meeting between the narrator and the woman seem more natural and less staged. The narrator was portrayed differently than I imagined when I read the poem. I did not expect him to be so creepy. His physical longing for his ex-lover was unsettling because it was not mutual. I did not enjoy how he stared at her and sexualized everything a...