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  2. Dramatic monologue - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment ...

  3. Persona poetry - Wikipedia

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    Persona poetry. Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a ' persona ' that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem. Dramatic monologues are a type of persona poem, because "as they must create a character, necessarily create a persona". [1]

  4. Stream of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Another early example is the use of interior monologue by T. S. Eliot in his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "a dramatic monologue of an urban man, stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action," [29] a work probably influenced by the narrative poetry of Robert Browning, including "Soliloquy of ...

  5. Monologue - Wikipedia

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    Monologue. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the ...

  6. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form.The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as far back as ancient Greece.. The English Renaissance saw the height of dramatic verse in the English-speaking world, with playwrights including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare developing new techniques, both for dramatic structure and ...

  7. Porphyria's Lover - Wikipedia

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    Porphyria's Lover. " Porphyria's Lover " is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. [1] Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells". The poem did not receive its definitive title ...

  8. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the ...

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    Tragedy [1][2][3][4] for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [5] It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered ...

  9. Oenone (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Oenone (poem) " Oenone " or " Œnone " is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1829. The poem describes the Greek mythological character Oenone and her witnessing incidents in the life of her lover, Paris, as he is involved in the events of the Trojan War. "Oenone" was inspired by Tennyson's trip to Spain, where he visited the Pyrenees mountains.