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Dramatic monologue is the poetic technique where a poet writes a poem which seems to be a character talking to himself (monologue), but where the interest in the poem is in what this character inadvertently tells us about himself and the world he lives in (which makes the revelation dramatic).
Since the character who speaks the poem is not the poet the speaker of such a poem is called a persona (Latin word for a mask).
Dramatic monologue has always existed as a form (it was a standard technique in bucolic poetry in ancient times) but the nineteenth century English poet Robert Browning made a special feature of it in his work. Many of this most famous poems are dramatic monologues:
in Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Browning speaks through the persona of a medieval Spanish Monk;
in Abt Vogler the poet gives us the opinions of an eighteenth century organ impresario and musical theorist;
in Andrea del Sarto Browning becomes a sixteenth century Florentine painter.
Browning's most famous collection Men and Women is composed entirely of poems written as Dramatic Monologues.
Browning's love of the form popularised it with subsequent generations (particularly in England): Yeats, Hardy, Wilfred Gibson, and Ezra Pound all used dramatic monologue extensively.
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