ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dramatic Monologue, Iliad, Fallen Woman
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Make a claim based on this evidence it should ne in the thesis but offer some deeper insight than what was offered in the into. Dramatic monologue: poetic genre that took shape in the victorian period. Poem consists of a single speech by a speaker who isn"t the poet. Times if great cultural, scientific and political achievement encouraged the study of leader and heroes. Victorians fascinated by ceremonies around death and commemoration. Memeorials, statues, etc: second interested in unusal or abherant subjects. Diveant subjects: allows us to evasdrop on the more morbid aspects of human psychology. Known as wily odysseus for his cunning planned the trojans horse plot. Spends 10 yrs fighting troy (the iliad) and 10 yrs journeying home to ithaca (the odyssey: first few lines, ulysses is not happy. In little profits, that"s an idle king, by the still hearth, among . Not pleased after the war, bored with his life, etc.
