My_Last_Duchess关于戏剧独白赏析.doc

A dramatic monologue is a piece of spoken verse that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker. Not to be confused with a soliloquy in a play (which the character speaking speaks to themselves), dramatic monologues suggest an auditor or auditors. They were favoured by many poets in the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, or motives. The monologue is usually directed toward a silent audience, with the speakers words influenced by a critical situation. 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 […]. 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. The main principle controlling the poets choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speakers temperament and character.[1] Characters Speaker (or Narrator): The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara. Browning appears to have modeled him after Alfonso II, who ruled Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. Alfonso was married three times but had no children. The poem reveals him as a proud, possessive, and selfish man and a lover of the arts. He regarded his late wife as a mere object who existed only to please him and do his bidding. He likes the portrait of her (the subject of his monologue) because, unlike the duchess when she was alive, it reveals only her beauty and none of the qualities in her that annoyed the duke when she was alive. Morever, he now has complete control of the portrait as a pretty art object that he can show to visitors. 《我 已 故的公爵夫人》一诗中，说话人是意大利文艺复兴时代的一位公爵，他正预备再度结婚。对象是一位伯爵的千金。为了确定嫁妆的数目，伯爵派了一位使者来谈判。公爵领着这位使者在他的宫殿内参观艺术收藏，其中就有他已故公爵夫人的画像。在整首诗中，公爵滔滔不决，尽情抒发;而使者缄默不语，似在凝听。在勃朗宁的诸多戏剧独白诗中，这首诗典型地呈现了戏剧独白诗的特色。勃朗宁让诗的叙述者剖白自