Question

In Robert Browning’s poems,both the duke in “My last Duchess” and the speaker in “Life in a Love” view love as___?

A) symbols of their status
B) people who are unfaithful
C) individuals lacking sensitivity
D) objects to be possessed

Answer 1

D because the duke is almost showing the visitor pic of his former wife

Answer 2

D) objects to be possessed

Step-by-step explanation:

You can see how the duke talks about the Duchess as if she was some sort of achievement than a person for him.

"Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together."

In "Life in a Love", the speaker doesn't seem to care about her wills:

"Escape me?

Never—

Beloved!

While I am I, and you are you,

So long as the world contains us both,

Me the loving and you the loth,

While the one eludes, must the other pursue. "