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Notes on Dramatic Monologue
T.S. Elliot, in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, uses the DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE. It is a monologue, realized as a poetic text, in which the poet commits his thoughts and his ideas to a speaking voice ( in this case to Prufrock) called dramatis personae or "maschera".
It is callled dramatic monologue because it is similar to a soliloquy in dramatic plays where the character/actor is talking to himself while the audience is listening.
Dramatic monologue allowds the poet to take the distances from both the reader and the character. It follows that he has an emotional distance that will lately be known as impersonality of the artist.
Last but not least, the dramatic monologue permits the reader to penetrate the most intimate and deepest part of the character who, through what he says and especially through what he doesn't say, reveals, to the intelligent and careful reader, all the things he is trying to hide.
T.S. Elliot, in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, uses the DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE. It is a monologue, realized as a poetic text, in which the poet commits his thoughts and his ideas to a speaking voice ( in this case to Prufrock) called dramatis personae or "maschera".
It is callled dramatic monologue because it is similar to a soliloquy in dramatic plays where the character/actor is talking to himself while the audience is listening.
Dramatic monologue allowds the poet to take the distances from both the reader and the character. It follows that he has an emotional distance that will lately be known as impersonality of the artist.
Last but not least, the dramatic monologue permits the reader to penetrate the most intimate and deepest part of the character who, through what he says and especially through what he doesn't say, reveals, to the intelligent and careful reader, all the things he is trying to hide.