David Yezzi, The Dramatic Element.

David Yezzi, The Dramatic Element

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The dramatic lyric tends to be a combination of Eliot’s second voice (the poet talking to an audience) and third voice (characters talking to each other). In such poems, the poet himself will often function as a character...

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