ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The dramatic monologue verse form allowed Browning to explore and probe the minds of specific characters. This particular format allowed Browning to maintain a great distance between himself and his creations: by channeling the voice of a character, Browning could expose evil without actually being evil himself.

Detailed explanation-2: -Browning’s monologue is a synthesis of dramatic and lyric quality. It is dramatic because it is the utterance of a single speaker who is different from the poet; at the same time, it Lyrical because it is an expression of his own thoughts and inner drama.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dramatic Monologue: His critical reputation rests mainly due to his dramatic monologues. It is a form of speech addressed to a silent listener. Its aim is ‘character study’ or ‘psycho-analysis. The poet may speak in self-justification or in a mood of detached self-explanation, contented, resigned or remorseful.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses, published in 1842, has been called the first true dramatic monologue. After Ulysses, Tennyson’s most famous efforts in this vein are Tithonus, The Lotos-Eaters, and St. Simon Stylites, all from the 1842 Poems; later monologues appear in other volumes, notably Idylls of the King.