My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Essay

In poem My Last Duchess, Robert Browning wants his readers to clear the conflict of art and morality. In the poem, the narrator talks about his deceased wife, using eloquent words as though his word itself is a painting, but beneath his beautiful words, he tells a story of why and how he killed his wife, I gave commands Then all smiles stopped together (Browning 2). He killed his wife because, she doesnt appreciate him as much as he would like her to appreciate him, as if she ranked/ My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old line/ With anybodys gift (Browning 2).The significance of Brownings title to the stalk of the poem is the engagement of art and morality of the poem and the actions of the narrator, he wants his readers to study the beauty of the poem and question the actions of the narrator. Browning wants to know weather the readers entrust deem his poetry elegant despite of the fact that the narrator in the poem killed his wife. Works cited Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess an d Other Poems. New York Dover Publications, Inc. (1993).