My Last Duchess

Intro to Literature Paper II . My analysis of the setting in My Last Duchess and Dover Beach At first glance the setting of a poem is the psychological and physiological environment in which the story takes place. In some instances, the setting is used to develop the characters. Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold use the setting to expose their character traits. �gMy Last Duchess�h and �gDover Beach,�h respectively, portray the weaknesses of the …

…weaknesses of their characters and allow the reader to draw a mental picture of the situations faced by the characters in the poems�f. The use of setting in a poem emphasizes the author words and character development. Setting not only describes the physical surroundings; it also describes the mental though of the characters in a poem. . Bibliography Book = Literature an intro to reading and writting 5th edition Authors = Edgar V. Roberts Henery E Jacobs