LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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It has a speaker as well as an implied reader.
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It includes elements of parody.
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There is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.”
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It is written in common, ordinary language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Everyone agrees that to be a dramatic monologue a poem must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and that the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Also known as a dramatic monologue, this form shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue: an audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet takes on the voice of a character, a fictional identity, or a persona.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dramatic monologue refers to a type of poetry. These poems are dramatic in the sense that they have a theatrical quality; that is, the poem is meant to be read to an audience. To say that the poem is a monologue means that these are the words of one solitary speaker with no dialogue coming from any other characters.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples include Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess, ” T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ” and Ai’s “Killing Floor.” A lyric may also be addressed to someone, but it is short and songlike and may appear to address either the reader or the poet.