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Critical Reviews on “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning’s collections of poetry are full of dramatic Monologues. Browning’s poetry has been reviewed by critic after critic, but no classifications are described as excitedly as his dramatic monologues. “My last Duchess” is only one of many poems, written by Browning that is full of secrets, curiosity, and accusations. In “My Last Duchess”, Browning is full of literary devices and hints as to what might have happened to a young girl once married to the Duke of Ferrara. Robert Browning uses imagery and allusion in “My Last Duchess” to describe the attitude of the Duke of Ferrara and his possessiveness. Robyn V. Young compares “My Last Duchess” to a few dramatic monologues by Tennyson, such as, “St. Simeon Stylites” and “Ulysses”. Young says “this is the only analogous poem in the language; the monologue is natural from the very situation of the solitary fanatic (Young, p.37)” of “St. Simeon Stylites”. In comparison he says, “”My Last Duchess”, it is very unnatural that the Duke should betray himself so entirely t