ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - Mac Flecknoe, Dorothy Livesay, Narrative Poetry
5 Dec 2012
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Involves one speaker; it"s an internal argument spoken aloud for the audience. Dramatic monologue explores a problem from the point of psychological observation. Insanity used to be seen as a punishment from god, but then they figured out that it was physical and that opened up many new character avenues in writing. It reveals the inner life of the speaker. This is often confused with a soliloquy > there lines are directed to themselves. Height of popularity was in the victorian era: my last duchess and ulysses, the. The decline in use was attributed to increasing political goings-on. Browning contributed highly and explored the psyche. He placed the poem in the 17th century, but we read it through the 19th century"s debates. The duke prefers his wife as a painting, because he likes the amount of control he can exercise over her and the fact that he can hide her away from the world as he wills.
