"a heart – how shall i say? – too soon made glad. too easily impressed: she liked whate’ershe looked on, and her looks went everywhere."
explain the above poem.

The above lines are from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess". It describes the duchess in the words of the duke. The Duke is saying that his wife is easily impressed, she likes everything she sees and she sees everything.

Explanation:

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is a poem about the Duke of Ferrara describing the portrait of the Duchess, his wife. The above lines "A heart- how shall I say? - too soon made glad. Too easily impressed: she liked whate’er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere." were the description of the duchess by the duke. He's saying that she finds happiness easily, everything makes her happy and she gets impressed easily. And that is what he doesn't like. According to him, this is the problem with her. In other words, he is complaining that she's not leaving even a spot of joy for him and he's jealous of that.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.