My analysis of the setting in My Last Duchess and Dover Beach At first glance the setting of a poem is the psychological and physiological environment in which the story takes place. In some instances, the setting is used to develop the characters. Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold use the setting to expose their character traits. "My Last Duchess" and "Dover Beach," respectively, portray the weaknesses of the characters using elements from the setting. The …showed first 75 words of 881 total…

…showed last 75 words of 881 total…uses the setting in "Dover Beach" to expose the lover's struggle in their relationship. Both poems' settings reveal the weaknesses of their characters and allow the reader to draw a mental picture of the situations faced by the characters in the poems'. The use of setting in a poem emphasizes the author words and character development. Setting not only describes the physical surroundings; it also describes the mental though of the characters in a poem. .