Death From an Angry duke

The trivial incidents of his wife giving the same response to every man and that she kept her gift of a tree branch from another man is what caused the response of the duke to kill, poison, execute, etc. his wife. When the Duke mentions the tree branch that she got, he says “some officious fool” which signified that he was mad because he called the man an officious fool and not just a fool. Along with that, when he describes her riding on a, “white mule around the terrace and all around her would draw from her alike approving speech, or blush, at least” he probably says it with anger considering the way he described her as if he was mocking her by explaining the expression of the men and the expression the duchess had. Again, toward the end of the poem when he says,”Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, whene’er I passed her: but who passed without much the same smile? This grew…” he signifies anger. The words “this grew” meant that he portrayed that the situation got worse, even if it really didn’t. All throughout the poem, the signs that the duke got more and more angered lead to the end when he kills his duchess, and then in the poem, simply says, “Let’s go down and meet the company”.