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Analysis of Dramatic Monologue in My Last Duchess

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The Analysis of Dramatic monologue In My Last Duchess

Abstract: Dramatic monologue which is an important poetic form which invented and practiced principally by Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold in the Victorian Period. Though the technique is evident in many ancient Greek dramas, the dramatic monologue as a poetic form achieved its first era of distinction in the work of Victorian poet Robert Browning. Browning's poems My Last Duchess and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, though considered largely inscrutable by Victorian readers, have become models of the form. This article will analyze this form in My Last Duchess.
Key words: Dramatic monologue, Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

Introduction A dramatic monologue is …show more content…

I said “Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance. (lines 5-7). These lines point out the existence of the hearer. The Count your master’s known munificence (lines 49) This line tells the identity of the hearer. How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not (lines 12-13) At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though (lines 53-54) These lines imply the behaviour of the hearer.
2.13 The dramatic circumstance The circumstance of this poem is in the palace of the Duke, where exhibits the artistic collection, like pictures of "Fra Pandolf", "the statue of Neptune 's taming a sea-horse cast by Claus of Innsbruck ".These descriptions indirectly reveal some characteristics of the speaker. These implies of the monologue's background make the whole poem realer and richer.

Browning's dramatic monologue is dramatic and thus objective. The vivid personal characteristic of the speaker, the existence of the silent hearer and the dramatic scene, all these strictly separate the hero of the poem from the creator of the poem. Instead of the poet's own views, the poem expresses the imaginary speaker's views, which makes the readers read more actively and initiatively to dig out what the author want to express.

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