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Dramatic monologue: a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent ‘audience' of one or more persons. Such poems reveal not the poet's own thoughts but the mind of the impersonated character, whose personality is revealed unwittingly; this distinguishes a dramatic monologue from a lyric, while the implied presence of an auditor distinguishes it from a soliloquy. Major examples of this form in English are Tennyson's ‘Ulysses' (1842), Browning's
‘Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855), and T. S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. AlfredPrufrock' (1917).

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Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

Tennyson's Ulysses

ROBERT BROWNING

The text - Guide to analysis

R. Browning and his My Last Duchess

The evolution of the dramatic monologue

The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood (teacher's notes)