There can be no reduction of Robert Browning to optimism or pessimism. His renowned dramatic monologues are intense psychological studies often mad and horrific minds. In Fra Lippo Lippi‚ for instance‚ Browning takes a very unsavory character and challenges readers to discover the goodness‚ or life-affirming qualities. In addition‚ there is a satiric tone to this as it mocks the speaker’s contemporaneous judges. Browning optimism is not based on any discount of the suffering of life‚ nor on
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Lady Macbeth held her newly received letter in her hands. Reading it carefully as if the words themselves would run off the pages. “The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle‚ and I have learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further‚ they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound‚ messengers from the king arrived and greeted me as the Thane of Cawdor‚ which is precisely how the weird sisters had saluted me before calling me ’the
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Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Sister of Hades‚ Hestia‚ Hera‚ Poseidon and Zeus. The goddess of agriculture. Do you know my name? Do you know of this grief and anger burning inside me? I have a daughter‚ Persephone -- maiden of the spring. But her uncle took her to the underworld. That wretched‚ HATEFUL‚ damn Hades! He stole my beloved daughter from me! I didn’t know what happened at first but I knew that cry. Persephone’s cry that echoed in the high hills to the depths of the sea! I searched everywhere
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the person to invent and popularise the dramatic monologue. This made him the foremost Victorian poet; two of his most successful dramatic monologues are those of ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. The reoccurring theme within the two monologues is murder as they show the idea of men killing a lover Dramatic monologues are significant in that there is only one point of view expressed throughout. In Victorian times dramatic monologues were very popular; Browning was seen as the innovator
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Dear‚ Bilbo Baggins Good morning my dear friend Bilbo. It’s me‚ Gandalf writing to you this very morning. After our great quest the dwarves and me have been doing great‚ we were wondering how were you doing? Bilbo we thank you very much for all of your help during our adventure. I am very proud and glad that my decision of choosing you as our burglar was successful. I still remember that day we you were just a little calm hobbit living happily in you little hobbit whole until that one day everything
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Duchess’ as a Dramatic Monologue A Dramatic monologue is a form of poetry where the speaker in the poem gives the readers a deep insight into his thoughts. It is different from a soliloquy since a dramatic monologue always has an implied audience. Dramatic monologue although originated well before the 19th century‚ it was popularized by Victorian poets like Browning‚ Tennyson and Dante Rossetti. Browning has experimented with this form of poetry to such depths that dramatic monologue has almost become
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Discuss My Last Duchess as an example of a well constructed dramatic monologue. Robert Browning used the poetic device of the dramatic monologue in his poem "My Last Duchess." One advantage of using this device is that it allows the speaker’s own words to reveal‚ celebrate‚ or‚ in this case‚ condemn his behavior. The speaker in "My Last Duchess" is the Duke‚ loosely based on the historical figure‚ the Duke of Ferrara whose own young wife died under mysterious circumstances. Browning writes the
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form of a dramatic monologue to help the story progress. For instance ’That’s my Last Duchess’ shows that there is one speculator although there is an implied audience. The effect of this is that it shows that the poem tells a story that consists of much more than the words spoken by the one giving the monologue. To evaluate‚ the dramatic monologue makes it engaging with the reader. Additionally‚ Browning uses rhetorical questions as part of form to help tell the story. For example‚ ’Who’d stoop to
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Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish‚ the Arab Physician" is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish writes to Abib about his experiencing the miracle of Jesus‚ when he raises Lazarus from the dead. "Karshish" is a dramatic monologue containing most of the tenets of Browning. Although "Karshish" is in the form of a letter‚ it is still an excellent example of a dramatic monologue. There is a speaker‚ Karshish‚ who is not the poet. There is a silent audience‚ Abib the reader
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Comparison of the use of a dramatic monologue. In ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’‚ Browning uses several features of dramatic monologue in order to engage and sustain the interest of the audience. This style of monologue is spoken by a character‚ which is not the poet‚ and is usually projected at a critical moment‚ as in the case of ’My Last Duchess’ and ’Porphyria’s Lover’. The speakers unintentionally reveal their insanity‚ in both poems‚ through their separate accounts. By studying
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