Hello 🙂
I need help with one of the poems from Anthology.
It's 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning
That's only a fragment of the poem:
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will't please you sit and look at her? I said
"Frà Pandolf" by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myselfthey turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) 10
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not
Her husband's presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps
Frà Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps
Over my Lady's wrist too much," or "Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat": such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough 20
I don't know what "will't" mean.
Can someone help? :))
4 Answers
-
It means will it.
-
That's a good point
-
Just like Romeo and Juliet,they use the word "Arthou"for Where are you?
Will't means will it.
-
Frankly, I am not convinced