A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet recites the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but the reader of the poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a dramatic monologue, the reader learns about the speaker's char...
"The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace-all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least."" (26-31) The Duke felt that any pleasure she experienced should be drawn from him and that he should be the one single object of importance to her. ... "The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace-all and each Would dra...
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue by the Duke of Ferrara. Through his monologue, the duke recalls the failings of his last wife to an agent of the Count of Tyrol in order to negotiate his second marriage. The duke's tale ultimately conveys to the reader that he is by natu...
