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Dramatic Monologues

One speaker talks to a silent listener and gives away more about themselves than they mean to.

T. S. EliotEliot Rudyard KiplingKipling Langston HughesHughes Robert BrowningBrowning Thomas HardyHardy
6 poems
BootsWe’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa! Rudyard Kipling Dramatic Monologue Journey of the Magi‘A cold coming we had of it, T. S. Eliot Dramatic Monologue Mother to SonWell, son, I’ll tell you: Langston Hughes Dramatic Monologue My Last DuchessThat’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockS’io credesse che mia risposta fosse T. S. Eliot Dramatic Monologue The Man He Killed“Had he and I but met Thomas Hardy Dramatic Monologue

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