The interpretations of the poem are widely divergent from my own interpretation when I first read the poem of "My Last Duchess". The poem does not mean to connote the duchess about her death. I myself first thought that the speaker (duke) did an unforgiving crime because of jealousy. The interpretation of the poem confuses me and deceives any reader to any possible motives of the poem. In addition, I find an intriguing line that says, "Nay, well go together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though". Line 53-54 seems that the duke is envious because he cannot be as dominant as he can be to make the duchess smile. The duke seems to be demanding too towards the actions of the person he is referring or commenting to.
The speaker's use of tone in the poem is quite similar in making ballads and songs. The tone used improves the sarcasm of the duke's motives such as the line that says, "This sort of trifling? Even had you skill in speech--which I have not--to make you will" (line 35-36). Reading the line 35-36 also tells that the skipping of lines gives an idea that the speaker is losing time to tell more about a part in the poem. However, the whole composition of the poem made me understand in the end that the whole idea of it is about the duke remembering the duchess for her shameful behavior towards him.
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