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How does "My Last Duchess" fulfill the requirements for a dramatic monologue?

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My Last Duchess" is a poem that was written by Robert Browning. It is often referred to as a dramatic monologue because the speaker, the Duke of Ferrara,reveals he felt the woman he married was beneath him in intelligence and socia lstanding.
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A dramatic monologue is a poem in the form of a speech made by an imaginative person created by the author. This narrative style normally reveals details of this imaginative person while he or she is describing a particular situation.

In "My Last Dutchess", the reader comes to know the Duke of Ferrara at a historical and psychological level, as sinister details about his actions and behavior are revealed throughout the poem.

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