English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Caesura, Dramatic Monologue
9 Mar 2016
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Allowing the poet to step past their own subjective experience. Is it ever possible to step past your own personal experience. To imagine what it"s like to be/exist as another person. This is what the dramatic monologue allows to do. Doesn"t think emotion can be systematized and controlled the way that it should. Artwork should ideally approach the condition of science. But emotions cannot be systematized this way. Temporal and spacial boundaries that cannot be exceeded. What we see is a small portion, and our time is limited. Our chance to experience everything is impossible. Cannot experience all that life has to offer. In the realm of fiction we find the plurality of lives that we need . One life is not enough, incredibly limited. Fiction, poetry, and art let us experience the other things. The understanding of us being limited is a problem, so we need to experience things that are not our own.
