Answer:
Unlike the actual late duchess in “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, the duchess as represented in the portrait is full of life
Step-by-step explanation:
The question is not complete since it does not provide the options to complete the blank, here are the options:
a) loved by the speaker
b) full of life
c) under the speaker’s control
d) sincerely joyful
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem that presents the conversation of the Duke while he is dealing with an emissary to set his new marriage with another young girl, he talks about his late wife as a very lively and happy girl, perhaps too happy and too liberal for his taste, but she is not anything of that anymore since she is dead.