Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed The Count your master’s known munificence ![]() Much the same smile? This grew I gave commands Whene’er I passed her but who passed without ![]() E’en then would be some stooping and I choose Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, Or that in you disgusts me here you miss, Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this In speech-(which I have not)-to make your will This sort of trifling? Even had you skill Would draw from her alike the approving speech, She rode with round the terrace-all and each The bough of cherries some officious foolīroke in the orchard for her, the white mule The dropping of the daylight in the West, Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast, She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enoughĪ heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad, Half-flush that dies along her throat”: such stuff Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint Her husband’s presence only, called that spotįra Pandolf chanced to say “Her mantle laps How such a glance came there so, not the firstĪre you to turn and ask thus. The depth and passion of its earnest glance,īut to myself they turned (since none puts byĪnd seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, Strangers like you that pictured countenance, Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said Worked busily a day, and there she stands. That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, ” Notice how the Duke’s character is revealed by what he says: “MY LAST DUCHESS” A famous example is Browning’s “My Last Duchess. None, however, produced as many, or as striking, dramatic monologues as Robert Browning. Other Victorian poets to produce one or more dramatic monologues include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Robert Browning is considered to be the perfecter of the dramatic monologue, which had its heyday in the Victorian Period. The main principle controlling the poet’s choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speaker’s temperament and chararcter This person addresses and interacts with one or more people but we know of the auditors’ presence, and what they say or do, only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker.ģ. A single person, who is clearly not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment.Ģ. Abrams, one of the general editors of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and a respected American critic known especially for work on Romanticism, lists three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry:ġ. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, the following definition is offered. In late June, a conference sponsored by the Browning Society of London focused on a particular aspect of Browning’s work–the dramatic monologue. ![]() Celebratons honoring the bi-centennial of Robert Browning’s birth are taking place on each side of the Atlantic.
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