0 a poem written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener about important events or thoughts
1 a poem written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener about important events or thoughts
But the largest, if not the greatest work in the volume must be sought for, not in the romances, properly speaking, nor in the lyrics, but in the dramatic monologues.
Clive, the most popular in style, and certainly one of the finest poems in the volume, is a dramatic monologue very much akin, in subject, treatment and form, to the narratives in the first series.
The larger part of the volume consists of dramatic monologues.
To Browning belongs the credit of having created a new poetic form,—the dramatic monologue.
Bennett's favourite act was to mock and parody the dramatic monologues of the turn of the century.
These forms are then replaced, argue the editors, by dramatic monologue and compressed lyric.
He created a new type of musical and dramatic monologue that became popular.
