English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: My Last Duchess, Dramatic Monologue
10 Mar 2016
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The dramaic monologue is a speciic genre that allows the poet to step outside the limitaion of his own mind: space of radical, imaginaive freedom. Shelly: to be ethical, to be good, requires the person to express the person"s imaginaion. Essay from shelly the defence of poetry: a man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively. He must put himself in the place of another and many others. The pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelly: goodness comes with the ability to extend yourself beyond your own mind. Elliot: to write a poem is to metaphorically commit suicide: the exincion of personality, poem is a space where the poet disappears. Browning trying to get into the mind of a serial killer. Victorian poet deeply inluenced by poets before him. Writes a poem called pauline : not very good, john stewart mills review for the poem: poets intense and morbid self- consciousness.
