In this poem, a "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" is given by the speaker, who also refers to "some officious fool" who broke "the bough of cherries". This poem discusses a figure "too easily impressed" who "liked whate'er she looked on" in addition to riding "round the terrace" on a "white mule". At the conclusion of the poem, the speaker mentions, in passing, a statue of a sea-horse being tamed by Neptune, "which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze" for him. Seeing this poem's title charac
In this poem, a "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" is given by the speaker, who also refers to "some officious fool" who broke "the bough of cherries". This poem discusses a figure "too easily impressed" who "liked whate'er she looked on" in addition to riding "round the terrace" on a "white mule". At the conclusion of the poem, the speaker mentions, in passing, a statue of a sea-horse being tamed by Neptune, "which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze" for him. Seeing this poem's title character, whose heart "was too soon made glad", "looking as if she were alive" even though she is just "painted on the wall"; identify this poem about the Duke of Ferrara's dead wife as depicted in a painting by Frà Pandolf, a work of Robert Browning.
In this poem, a "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" is given by the speaker, who also refers to "some officious fool" who broke "the bough of cherries".
“{My} Last {Duchess}”