Can somebody help with the following assignment: Write a dramatic monologue in Browning's style in which a student talks about reading "Caliban upon Setebos".

Or at least what are the features of Browining's style?

Thanks in advance.

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More suggestions are still welcome.
My deadline is on Monday,15.

Here's a description of 'the characteristics'- from the Stockton College website. (The cache)

'The dramatic monologues of Browning are characterized by certain identifiable traits. The three requirements of a Browning dramatic monologue are "The reader takes the part of the silent listener; The speaker uses a case-making argumentative tone; We complete the dramatic scene from within, by means of inference and imagination" (Landow). Critics have interpreted the third requirement, the reader's interpretation and conclusions, as a suspension of the reader/listener between sympathy and judgment. The reader has a choice regarding the intent of the speaker, but he/she must remain removed until the speaker is done making his argument.'

What you're going to need to do is come up with a case- some sort of change or insight that your narrator (the student) comes up with in reading Caliban. There's some good discussion of the poem at the U of Toronto site. [eir.library.utoronto.ca]

Once you've got the case, put it into poetic form- your narrator is addressing an observer. In a perfect world, the observer would be able to make a conclusion beyond what the narrator says- maybe even beyond what the narrator knows. But none of us are Browning.

pam

Good stuff, Pam. The style will have to be 'blank verse', of course, to match Browning's meter in the dramatic monologue. Ten syllables per line, every 2nd syllable stressed, with a few anapests and trochees thrown in for variation. Lots of thees and thous, doths and haths, sure (there's a tongue-twister). One could go with making Setebos a fat god, since that word anagrams to 'obesest'!

Definitely a tough assignment.

pam