A dramatic monologue turned into an amazingly descriptive poem. The
poem is mostly about a Duke describing a
painting to a
guest he is having at his palace. The painting he describes was of his former wife. He tells his guest how she was not a proper wife. That she flirted around and
treated him like a guest in his own home. She was a woman who had compassion for others beside him, and she courteous to her servants. This the Duke found as an outrageous act. Later in the poem we find out that he had her killed because of this. He is telling this story to his guest so that his daughter will
know not to be like his last Duchess. He wants everyone to know he must be treated like a king and respected as that. He should not feel like a commoner in anyway or he will dispose of that person.
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