s image helps create the picture of a mother watching her son from the banks as he drowns, and she is helpless. A dramatic monologue is a powerful tool that Yeats, Johnson and Atwood manipulate to achieve a similar goal: the unveiling of their character. In much the same way that a sculptor molds clay, the writer uses mood, diction and imagery to shape its characters. Through a dramatic monologue the poet allows the reader to not only envision the characters in their physical forms, but feels their pain, celebrates their triumphs and journeys with them throughout their various dramatic experiences. Works CitedAtwood, Margeret. Journals of Susanna Moodie Macmillan of Canada, 1980.Johnson, Pauline. Flint and Feather McCelland and Stewart, 1972.Kennedy, Ronald. The Yeats Reader Dundurn, 1968.Landy, Alice, Martin, Dave. The Heath Introduction to Literature Canadian Edition, Heath and Company, 1980.http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/rb/dm1.htmlhttp://www.uvic/writersguide/eng/dramatic.mono.com...
