Dramatic monologue

“Patterns” is a poem composed during the rise of the Imagist movement in modern poetry, Amy Lowell was greatly sympathetic . She eventually became one of its major advocates and leaders. Imagists attempted to break with the traditional forms of poetry, preferring unrhymed and free verses which are more colloquial, economical diction which was closer to the rhythms of speech. In “Patterns,” her best-known poem, Lowell used an irregular rhyme scheme to suggest that expression must follow the…

and death. Both poems follow the aftermath of a marriage brought to an end by the death of the wife. In order to comprehend the psyches of the husbands and the manners in which they cope with their partners deaths, a close analysis of their dramatic monologues is required, for it may reveal discrepancies between their words and thoughts. My Last Duchess follows a duke, implied to be the duke of Ferrara by the fact that the Italian city is named at the beginning of the poem, showing a painting…

There is a moment, before the large expanse of the red curtain is drawn back and the radiant glare of the lights will flood the stage, when I wonder if I can go through it. My stomach feel as if it’s a dryer in a high spin cycle and the adrenaline running through my veins makes me feel the most confident and most insecure I’ve ever felt. There is something so intimate about live theatre that it’s simultaneously terrifying and thrilling. Then the music begins, I close my eyes, and I take a deep…

Mistress”, Andrew Marvell tells the efforts of a man who is desperately trying to seduce his mistress into making love with him before it’s too late. With this dramatic monologue Marvell express the speaker’s admiration and desire to love the mistress through metaphors and imagery to connect to the themes of time and love. In this dramatic poem metaphors are used in the speaker’s efforts to convince the Mistress to make love. “My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow”…

Homunculus Theatre Company successfully created a Commedia Dell’Arte piece through the utilisation of conventions of commedia and the dramatic elements to effectively produce dramatic meaning. ’20 lazzi’s in a hat’ “showcases numerous masked stock characters, hilarious burle and 20 of Commedia’s famous traditional lazzi consisting of verbal asides on current political, social and literary topics, pratfalls and acrobatics (Homunculus Theatre company, n.d.).” Commedia Dell’Arte is a form of…

When Butch goes an gets the watch you see him sneak through the alley and goes through broken wired fences for the dramatic effect you can hear a helicopters and barking all these effects are chosen to enhance the battling against Marcellus and his henchmen it's a war but on a civilian level. Then in the apartments he kills the hitman with a machine gun another reference to war, dramatic loud helicopters and motorcycles are played as he exits his apartment are all connections to the struggle…

Therefore following on I examined each characters monologues, actions, subtext of the play along with the directors intentions and how these scenes would correspond with the following themes. This helped myself and the director establish the scenes and how they would set up in the finale product, after rearranging…

CINEMATOGRAPHY This idea of truth will also cross over into our photography - Nothing should be over-styled or over-lit to avoid the contrived look,. I am thinking that beautiful Nordic Noir, something edgy and modern, but at the same time human and organic - something that you can touch which feels authentic. Sunlight streaming through coffee-shop windows, moody skies, atmospheric landscapes, we want to use our environment to develop a tone, add drama and provoke thoughts, which will, in…

Foils Essay Romeo’s character in Romeo and Juliet is the teenage son of Lord and Lady Montague. In the events of the play, he falls in love with Juliet, a member of the enemy household, Capulet. Over the span of three days, the two “star-crossed” lovers kiss, marry, and commit suicide for the sake of love. Mercutio is neither of Montague nor Capulet, but he is Romeo’s best friend. He serves as a comic relief throughout most of the production, though his death is a turning point in the events of…

Cinna’s death, Shakespeare emphasized the brutality of man and man’s failure think logically under pressure. In addition, I think that the anticlimactic ending was effective in emphasizing how childish feuds are. Near the end, I was expecting a dramatic battle over power. However, it seemed that the conspirators simply gave up at the end, resulting in Brutus and Cassius’s suicides. The lack of excitement conveyed how the war was essentially useless…