One of my favourite poems, along with Ozymandias and London. Now my head is full of abstract ideas that i had never thought of before. Thank you, Mr Salles! Also, you might have noticed I'm binging all of your videos-they are awesome.
i know Im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a trick to log back into an instagram account? I was stupid forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me
@William Simon I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Mr Salles back at it again! Some of your annotations are absolutely genius, no one else speaks about them. I should have watched this video first instead of 'saving best 'till last' because, now I'm going to run out of space to annotate the poem.
Thanks for the help, this was the last poem I had left to revise and your videos have encouraged me to think in a sophisticated and perceptive manner- not just for poetry and Macbeth but across the English syllabus as a whole
Thank you so much Mr Salles! I’ve used your advice and put it into my year 11 mock exam and i got the highest grade in the class and my teacher is so proud of me! Thanks so much you have helped me a lot !!
I’m not trying to tell you I’m definitely right but at 22:48 I strongly believe when he says “ who’d stoop to blame” he’s talking about himself. He’s saying who would stoop to Blame the Duke for bringing this up as a problem.
questions on structure: Why does Browning adopt the use of the iampic pentameter and rhyming couplets? also, why does he write the poem in the form of a monologue with no clear paragraphs but with an almost continuos sequence of enjambments?
I think to show, in part, that the Duke has *planned* his words to the envoy/representative carefully. Browning might be trying to show us that the Duke is presice in his actions and is premeditated in his choices? Just guessing here.
And the enjanbments could be to show what the Duke implies by each thing he says. Like the enjambment when the Duke says 'and I choose [enjambment] never to stoop' This could be to show that the Duke (emphasis on the I) sees it as degrading to lessen himself in any way and so chooses not to do so, all whilst expecting those around him to lessen themselves, except his wife, the duchess, who he resents for stooping to thank any other than himself. By this token we see that the Duke would not mind her stooping in deference to him, but resents her doing so to other who he considers lesser because of how it reflects on him.
hi Mr salles just a quick interpretation i dont know whether it is valid enough could you say that the duke was jealous of her love for life so he took her life away.
Hello Mr Salles, as you might know I have now moved onto the IB diploma programme. However, I'm doing Robert Browning poems and my last duchess is one of them! This means that I can still use your videos for my last duchess. Other poems include laboratory and porphyria's lover; it would be great if you could do a video on them, although I understand completely if you don't because GCSE is your target audience. Thanks for the great work for My Last Duchess!
Thank you so much. My teacher only had the interpretation of the fact that women are subservient etc and refused to listen to my interpretations. Thank you for this though!
Yes, it shows that it was done at speed - it had to be done in a day. It proves the Duke is in a hurry, as he has plans to kill his wife. It also shows that there would be no time for her to flirt with the painter - the Duke's jealousy is baseless.
Dear Mr Salles. Your videos and explanations are great but I am confused about a few things. My class and I last covered poems over a year ago and for half-term, I am revisiting them and fully revising them but I am quite unsure what I need to know for the exams and stuff like that. I am quite a capable student (predicted a grade 7 for literature) and i know that i need to remember quotes for all poems. There is only one literature paper 2 sample that i could find so I don't really know how the questions are going to be and I don't really know how to prepare for literature paper 2 (the poems section (not unseen)). If you could kindly explain this to me I would be very grateful. Thank You
Read books with a great vocabulary. Steal the most interesting 12 words from one of the poems you are studying and write a description using them in say 150 words. Then add more from another poem, and write the beginning of a story. Then add more from another poem and write a whole story, or a two page description with all 36 of your words.
Hi Sir, brilliant video! I was just wondering which analysis of My Last Duchess would you say is the best for the Power and Conflict 2018 exam. Is it your original A* video or this one on getting grade 9?
Mr Salles Teaches English ok, so Im in a situation where at the time I was in college and obviously you know you don't get told about the last opportunity about gcse resits and change of spec for gcse as you are doing a levels, so I wasn't aware of this at the time that the English literature is changing and the last opportunity was the summer gone, so I's there any way at all for me to resit the old spec? I mean I think I have a fair point as to why I didn't sit it in the summer
Hello Adam, my understanding is that resits are possible up until the Summer of 2017. This is decided by the exam regulator, Ofqual. Follow this link to the relevant page of their website. www.gov.uk/guidance/timings-for-the-withdrawal-of-legacy-gcses-as-and-a-levels
Mr Salles Teaches English Yes sir you can resit, however if you find English literature the last sitting is 2016 and when you go to the resits available column, it's N/A. If you are a college student, you wouldn't be told about gcse stuff but you will be aware of the a level changes of specs and final exams resit opportunity , if you can understand where I am coming from. Also they must've made a back up paper last summer aswell?
Ok, I see where you are coming from. But there is no resit for literature, so however unfair of your college not to tell you, there is no way back. However, why would you need to resit literature? You only need one of literature or language, so do language.
Saw a painting by him in Uffizi about 17 years ago and got English teacher excited about it. I've always been befuddled when study guides say he's not real as I've seen his work. NOT a portrait of a blushing lady, though! I just wish I'd taken a photo 👨🎨
Hiya I am currently a student in Year 11, taking the new GCSE exams for english language and literature this. I am achieving grade 5/6, and to practise this new specfication i would like some practise papers, preferably paper 1 and 2. I have done the specimen papers available to the public on the AQA website. Is it okay if you could find some papers as i have looked online everywhere. I have heard of specimen papers released by AQA by watching your videos, on an online website called eAQA, since i am not allowed to download them. Is it okay if you can download and share them with me or us? they shall be used to revision purposes only Thank you for your help
Sorry Bilal, I don't want to get into trouble with AQA. However, your teacher has access to eAQA and will give them to you if you ask. Teachers love students who work hard!
One of my favourite poems, along with Ozymandias and London. Now my head is full of abstract ideas that i had never thought of before. Thank you, Mr Salles! Also, you might have noticed I'm binging all of your videos-they are awesome.
I am honoured! I hope they live up to expectations.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish They do...
i know Im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a trick to log back into an instagram account?
I was stupid forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me
@Jagger Owen Instablaster =)
@William Simon I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now.
Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
A lot better than BRUFF!
Thanks! I bet he gets comments the other way around on his channel!
bruffs analysis of this was quite disappointing
what do u mean
other way to what. the comment this person said or the comment or bad comments?
@@misan2002 he gets comments saying that he is alot better than mr Sayles I think
100%
Mr Salles back at it again! Some of your annotations are absolutely genius, no one else speaks about them. I should have watched this video first instead of 'saving best 'till last' because, now I'm going to run out of space to annotate the poem.
Thanks for the help, this was the last poem I had left to revise and your videos have encouraged me to think in a sophisticated and perceptive manner- not just for poetry and Macbeth but across the English syllabus as a whole
Brilliant video! Goes miles above and beyond the revision guide
Here for last minute revison for tommorow. Thanks for your help !
Thank you so much for doing this video, it helped me a lot and the analysis made me see the poem in a whole different light.
I'm struggling to isolate which quotes I would use for this poem in an essay?
Thank you so much Mr Salles! I’ve used your advice and put it into my year 11 mock exam and i got the highest grade in the class and my teacher is so proud of me! Thanks so much you have helped me a lot !!
Fantastic! I am equally proud!
I’m not trying to tell you I’m definitely right but at 22:48 I strongly believe when he says “ who’d stoop to blame” he’s talking about himself. He’s saying who would stoop to Blame the Duke for bringing this up as a problem.
questions on structure:
Why does Browning adopt the use of the iampic pentameter and rhyming couplets?
also, why does he write the poem in the form of a monologue with no clear paragraphs but with an almost continuos sequence of enjambments?
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I think to show, in part, that the Duke has *planned* his words to the envoy/representative carefully. Browning might be trying to show us that the Duke is presice in his actions and is premeditated in his choices? Just guessing here.
And the enjanbments could be to show what the Duke implies by each thing he says. Like the enjambment when the Duke says 'and I choose [enjambment] never to stoop'
This could be to show that the Duke (emphasis on the I) sees it as degrading to lessen himself in any way and so chooses not to do so, all whilst expecting those around him to lessen themselves, except his wife, the duchess, who he resents for stooping to thank any other than himself. By this token we see that the Duke would not mind her stooping in deference to him, but resents her doing so to other who he considers lesser because of how it reflects on him.
Didn't mean to write that much, sorry. :)
@@ace_atomic3023 2 years later, lol. I dont even remember what I was on about ahahah
My teacher reccomended this video to my class and I decided to have a look and I love it tysm for this video
Thank you!
Is there anything in this poem that implies the Duchess was from a lower class?
There is only one Duke, so she must be socially inferior, like the new suitor, the Count - but arguably the same class
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish okay thank you, and this was a very helpful video!
Does anyone know how there are 11 syllables at 20:30
Yeah there aren’t. It annoyed me too. I just kept to enjambment
@NFG.learning woah this comment is from back when I was in year 11, I'm at uni now
@ haha crazy! How did you do in gcse and what uni did you end up at?
@NFG.learning I was the 2020 year so I got predicted grades but I'm at imperial now, got rejected first time but took a gap year
This was really helpful for some themes of the poem l was struggling with 👍🏾
and sir another question
which poem best compares to "my last duchess"
London or the prelude 😊
@@autumn4301 How would you compare this poem to the prelude?
hi Mr salles just a quick interpretation i dont know whether it is valid enough could you say that the duke was jealous of her love for life so he took her life away.
angel 1 yes
Thank you
Love this video, but could you link this to other poems.
Hello Mr Salles, as you might know I have now moved onto the IB diploma programme. However, I'm doing Robert Browning poems and my last duchess is one of them! This means that I can still use your videos for my last duchess. Other poems include laboratory and porphyria's lover; it would be great if you could do a video on them, although I understand completely if you don't because GCSE is your target audience. Thanks for the great work for My Last Duchess!
ruclips.net/video/0bvAABAtz8Y/видео.html
Here's Porphyria's Lover
Thank you so much. My teacher only had the interpretation of the fact that women are subservient etc and refused to listen to my interpretations. Thank you for this though!
Good luck
Thank you so much for the sharing! Brilliant analysis! Really helpful!
Glad you liked it!
How does this poem explore identity ? Please reply I’m really confused , thanks .
By asking how the Duke sees himself and contrasting that with how we see him.
Is there any significance that the duchess is painted on the wall, rather than on a canvas....m
Yes, it shows that it was done at speed - it had to be done in a day. It proves the Duke is in a hurry, as he has plans to kill his wife. It also shows that there would be no time for her to flirt with the painter - the Duke's jealousy is baseless.
Do you think a question on memory will come up on the literature gcse this month surrounding my last duchess?
No
Dear Mr Salles. Your videos and explanations are great but I am confused about a few things. My class and I last covered poems over a year ago and for half-term, I am revisiting them and fully revising them but I am quite unsure what I need to know for the exams and stuff like that. I am quite a capable student (predicted a grade 7 for literature) and i know that i need to remember quotes for all poems. There is only one literature paper 2 sample that i could find so I don't really know how the questions are going to be and I don't really know how to prepare for literature paper 2 (the poems section (not unseen)). If you could kindly explain this to me I would be very grateful. Thank You
OriginalTeamArrow I am snowboarding at the minute, but I will make a poetry comparison video next week.
ok. sorry to disturb you. have a good time snowboarding!
Thank you for giving me incredible homework notes!!
Hi mate, thanks for this, do you have any predictions what you think the poem will be? I feel maybe Ozymandias
sir can u explain to me why the duke would think his wife was being unfaithful to him with fra pandolf
Because she is blushing while having her portrait taken
sir, how do we know that?
0:10 it.............. One of the great things...
i almost fell asleep not gonna lie
My teacher said that we have to know at least 5 quotes from each poem so should I watch this video or the 5 key quotations one
This one if you love English, the 5 quotation one if you just want to pass the exam!
Fantastic analysis. Thank you!
How can I expand my vocabulary for English language paper 1 question 5?
Read books with a great vocabulary. Steal the most interesting 12 words from one of the poems you are studying and write a description using them in say 150 words. Then add more from another poem, and write the beginning of a story. Then add more from another poem and write a whole story, or a two page description with all 36 of your words.
Hi Sir, brilliant video! I was just wondering which analysis of My Last Duchess would you say is the best for the Power and Conflict 2018 exam. Is it your original A* video or this one on getting grade 9?
The ideas are the same, I just presented it differently
Thank You!!!!
could u say he is talking to his wife to be when he says "last"
I love this! My only issue with it is that all of the points are So Good that I can't skip any of them so it takes ages to write my notes lol
That's very kind. Play it with the dictation app in Word or on your phone, then edit the transcript to make your notes. Much quicker.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish ohh that's a much better idea! Thanks!
Really helpful sir, thank you :)
Great video, do you have an email where I could send you a few questions?
It is easier if you post them as comments. Email is for personal stuff.
Mr Salles Teaches English ok, so Im in a situation where at the time I was in college and obviously you know you don't get told about the last opportunity about gcse resits and change of spec for gcse as you are doing a levels, so I wasn't aware of this at the time that the English literature is changing and the last opportunity was the summer gone, so I's there any way at all for me to resit the old spec? I mean I think I have a fair point as to why I didn't sit it in the summer
Hello Adam, my understanding is that resits are possible up until the Summer of 2017. This is decided by the exam regulator, Ofqual. Follow this link to the relevant page of their website. www.gov.uk/guidance/timings-for-the-withdrawal-of-legacy-gcses-as-and-a-levels
Mr Salles Teaches English Yes sir you can resit, however if you find English literature the last sitting is 2016 and when you go to the resits available column, it's N/A. If you are a college student, you wouldn't be told about gcse stuff but you will be aware of the a level changes of specs and final exams resit opportunity , if you can understand where I am coming from. Also they must've made a back up paper last summer aswell?
Ok, I see where you are coming from. But there is no resit for literature, so however unfair of your college not to tell you, there is no way back. However, why would you need to resit literature? You only need one of literature or language, so do language.
This was the poem in this years exam!
I'm pretty sure Fra Pandalf is a real painter. I saw his work in the Uffizi ...
I hope the ellipsis signifies this is tongue in cheek!
Saw a painting by him in Uffizi about 17 years ago and got English teacher excited about it. I've always been befuddled when study guides say he's not real as I've seen his work. NOT a portrait of a blushing lady, though! I just wish I'd taken a photo 👨🎨
Your acc a legend thank god for these videos✌️
Thank you so much!!!
At 20:30 I don't see how there are 11 syllables, do you know how
Hiya I am currently a student in Year 11, taking the new GCSE exams for english language and literature this. I am achieving grade 5/6, and to practise this new specfication i would like some practise papers, preferably paper 1 and 2. I have done the specimen papers available to the public on the AQA website.
Is it okay if you could find some papers as i have looked online everywhere. I have heard of specimen papers released by AQA by watching your videos, on an online website called eAQA, since i am not allowed to download them. Is it okay if you can download and share them with me or us? they shall be used to revision purposes only
Thank you for your help
Sorry Bilal, I don't want to get into trouble with AQA. However, your teacher has access to eAQA and will give them to you if you ask. Teachers love students who work hard!
Very Helpful!
21:21
i was learning this its hard
on the first line when you say "painted on the wall" you are mumbling and I can't hear what you are saying. You started with this is Evidence for ...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks!
p a i n.
Mr Bruff's analysis of this poem was terrible
hate this poem
Nvm it’s actually so good
speak up a bit next time