What is a dramatic monologue poem? How does a dramatic monologue function? Professor Neil Davison answers these questions using examples from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess." The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify dramatic monologues in poetry but also to analyze their purposes and effects.
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