Dramatic Monologue

Question 1

Williams

Answer 1

‘in foregrounding a fictive speaker, it assert’s the poet’s status as maker, as magician. The feint is designed to be a transparent one’, reminds us to be aware of both the author and ‘our position of audience’

Question 2

Stagg

Answer 2

‘chiefly valuable for the psychological insights it gives into a character’

Question 3

Brooke

Answer 3

Dramatic monologues ‘belong directly to the tragedy and comedy of life’

Question 4

Curry:

dram mon as conflict

Answer 4

Listener and speaker must be ‘realised as continuously living and thinking’
Dramatic monologue as conflict between ‘poet and stage, between writer and stage artist’

Question 5

Pearsall:

Transformation and destruction

Answer 5

Monologue speakers as ‘searchers after some transformation…simutaneously creates a self and alters that self’
‘concurrence of creation and destruction’