Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0408 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Looking As If She Were Alive"
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The idea
The poem opens: that is my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. The phrase is offered as praise of the painter. It also tells the reader, by the second line, that the woman is dead.
In practice
Praise of the painter, and a death notice.
Where people slip
The death arrives as an aside.
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