ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -dramatic monologue, a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker’s history and psychological insight into his character.

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: -A monologue-from the Greek monos ("single") and legein ("to speak")-is a speech given by a single person to an audience.