man is still afraid to die. The poem is one of Browning’s unique, full of mixed and construed emotions overlapping each other. Browning heavily influenced poetic society for all time. He mastered and left behind poetic devices that modern poets of today still use. He invented the dramatic monologue, a poem with a speaker and an implied auditor where there is a gap between what the speaker says and what he actually reveals( Landow 1). He wrote long Victorian poetic forms, which were contemporary versions of a miniature epic. He also created the silent listener, the implied listener in the poem who never speaks. All of these devices made Browning the poet that society will long remember. The device that Browning will be remembered the most for is the dramatic monologue. There is always a point of entry where the speaker seems as if he is talking to the reader and pulls him into the poem. The reader eventually begins not to sympathize with the speaker anymore because of the arguments they can not hear from the other side. They then begin to doubt the words and ideas of the speaker and by the time the poem is completed they are wondering about the other side of the story, which they did not get to hear.The long Victorian poems that Browning wrote always had themes. They always defined the role of the poet and redefined other major literary forms. His long poems always employed devices of epic and romance, always testing the hero to the furthest bonds. Browning’s most famous long poems were, “The Ring and the Book” and “The Idylls of a King.” All Victorian long poems were set in the Victorian era.Most of Browning’s plays were reactions to things that happened in the past. How a husband felt after his wife had been dead. How a man wants revenge on people whom did him wrong in the past? How a bishop wants to be buried because he feels like he should have died long ago. Browning uses...
