Worth is a long-term perspective. As with value, we think of worth as being stable across market price fluctuations, and so as somewhat intrinsic in the thing. We tend to imagine an ideal buyer, one who values the property as least as much as we do.
Robert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. âMy Last Duchessâ is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener.This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem.obert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. âMy Last Duchessâ is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener.
It is depressing to see so really noble a character as Catherine soured, as we feel, and lowered, as time goes on, from the happy resignation of the first volume (in which solemn, beautiful, and entire, and so very real, she is like a poem of Wordsworth) down to the mere passivity of the third volume, and the closing scene of Robert Elsmere's days, ...