Talk:Dramatic monologue

"Developed during Victorian period" questionable
Since dramatic monologue was known for centuries before the Victorian period, I'm not sure it's correct to assert that the dramatic monologue, in poetry, was a Victorian invention. I suppose we aren't counting Elizabethan drama, although it is verse, because we categorize it as "drama" today.... it is clearly poetry, too, though, and probably not the earliest example of dramatic monologue, though I admit I do not know where to begin research to find the earliest example.

Mooncaine 01:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

This definition does not qualify the dramatic monologue properly. Consulting both the M.H. Abrams Glossary of Literary Terms as well as the Oxford Dictionary of literary terms yields these definitions:

"Dramatic monologue does not designate a component in a play, but a type of lyric poem. ... [The] dramatic monologue has the following features: (1) A single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment... (2) This person addresses and interacts with one or more other people, but we know of the auditors' presence, and what they say and do, only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker. (3) The main principle controlling the poet's choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speaker's temperament and character."

Please consider revising this page to correct the definition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.53.0.71 (talk) 03:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

There are several problems with this article. There's a lot to argue with here. I won't go into a detailed account of what I find questionable as it will simply depress me and make me more grumpy. I am sure, though, that if this article is researched properly and re-written, many of the onerous questionable statements shall disappear. Gingermint (talk) 05:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

This Should Be Longer and Better Researched
The Dramatic Monologue. That's it? This little snippet of an article is all that the Dramatic Monologue is worth? Gingermint (talk) 05:25, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sad to say little improvement seems to have been made in almost 10 years. I will try and work on this. Rwood128 (talk) 15:10, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Sylvia Plath "Daddy"
It seems to me that the above-mentioned poem is disqualified from this classification, by the fact that it's common knowledge that the speaker is in fact the poet herself. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:02, 22 July 2021 (UTC)