Dramatic Poetry In Macbeth

Dramatic Poetry

The third kind of poetry is dramatic; it presents the voice of an imaginary character speaking directly, without any narration on part of the author. It is the type of poetry in which the actions are dramatized through monologue or dialogue. The speaker is a character, like one in a play or a story; he has his own points of view, attitudes, background and ways of looking at reality. According to Nina Peboworth (2004) in dramatic poem characters speak through written word. The dialogues in dramatic poetry provide the key to understanding the poems’ events. Consider the following example:

What color are the skies today, my love? The maiden whispered

The skies are of a beautiful blue, the color of your eyes

Through this short example, students can see that there are two characters speaking to one another, and, through their dialogue, they learn that may have a romantic relationship, that one has beautiful eyes, and that the

In this case, Duncun says that he trusts Macbeth but he was not knowing about the prediction of witches that Macbeth is going to be the king and that if he would kill him. The audience, on the other hand, knows about the prophecy. This is how it demonstrates dramatic irony.

2.4.3.3 Soliloquy

Is the another type of dramatic poetry in which the speech is delivered by a single character created outside the poet 's own personality, but in this case, there is no other character being addressed. In fact, by his speech, the character speaks his inner thoughts and feelings out. Hamlet 's soliloquy in act II, scene ii, lines 585 -92 is one of the many in Shakespeare 's Hamlet.

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

Is it not monstrous that this player here,

But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,

Could force his soul so to his own