"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" by Robert Browning, published in "Dramatic Lyrics" (1842), is written from the perspective of a monk who intensely dislikes "Brother Lawrence." The poem details the narrator's observations of Brother Lawrence's minor failings and his sinister thoughts of murder or damnation, ending abruptly as vespers begin.
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" by Robert Browning, published in "Dramatic Lyrics" (1842), is written from the perspective of a monk who intensely dislikes "Brother Lawrence." The poem details the narrator's observations of Brother Lawrence's minor failings and his sinister thoughts of murder or damnation, ending abruptly as vespers begin.
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| Back | Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published in his collection Dramatic Lyrics (1842). It is written in the voice of an unnamed Spanish monk. The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter. The plot of the poem centers around the speaker's hatred for "Brother Lawrence", a fellow monk in the cloister. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister The speaker notes the trivial ways in which Brother Lawrence fails in his Christianity, and then plots to murder, or damn the soul of, Brother Lawrence. However, the poem ends before the speaker can finish, when he is interrupted by the bells proclaiming it is time for vespers. |
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