The dramatic monologue is extremely hard to define, as it is multifaceted, and monologues vary widely in regards in content and situation. The dramatic part of the monologue form can be put down to the structure of the poetry itself, which is very often iambic, and where punctuation follows the pattern of everyday speech. Dramatic monologues do not usually rhyme, or conform to a strict pattern, as they are intended to reveal and honest and …
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…to be arrived at independently by the reader, is in fact measured by the poets own skill in the presentation. Bibliography: Carol Ann Duffy: Standing Female Nude Philip Larkin: Collected Poems Tennyson: Ulysses T.S.Eliot: The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock Browning: Collected works John Lennard: The Poetry Handbook Stefan Hawlin: The Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning Raplh W. Rader: The Dramatic Monologue and Related Lyric Forms. Robert Langbaum: The Poetry Of Experience