Persona poetry is poetry written from the perspective of a persona the poet creates, who serves as the poem's speaker, a tradition ancient in origin and still practiced today. Robert Browning's dramatic monologues brought the form to prominence in the Victorian era, and modernist poets including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Fernando Pessoa, who wrote under more than seventy distinct personae, later extended its reach.
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Notable ExampleMy Last Duchess by Robert Browning (1842) 1 Defining TraitPoetry written from the perspective of a persona created by the poet, who serves as the poem's speaker 1 Sources
1. Persona poetry - Wikipedia
Notable works, English language poetry
Robert Browning's dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' (1842) typifies the formalistic qualities of the persona poem: dramatic tension, manipulating the reader experience, and removing the distance between speaker and reader.
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Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a 'persona' that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem.
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