Browning의 시의 변모:실험 단계 : "Madhouse Cells"를 중심으로 = Transformation of Browning's Poetry : the Experimental Period

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Poets refer to the reality in any form, Poetry is the way for poets to understand themselves and the reality, and comprehend what they can and cannot do to realize their ideals. Robert Browning had to find what and how he wrote different from those of the previous generation of poets--the so-called Romantics. In writing poems he wrestled with history and the reality as all his contemporary intellectuals and poets did. His efforts to find the right form of expression for his thoughts and emotions were inevitably connected with the contemporary society and historicality, and they brought about various experiments and resulted into the dramatic monologue.
Browning was, first and foremost, trying to understand the human nature, especially the contemporary society and human beings. These are the genesis of his poems and what his poems depict. These are what should be considered first in understanding his poetry. In dramatic monologues Browning's interest was not in the accuracy of the sources or realities of the incidents but in understanding the human nature through those proper historical incidents. Dramatic monologues are what represents that best in those incidents, circumstances, and contexts not in simple prose but in the poetic and dramatic language. For more than 10 yearn Browning struggled through various expriments to fond the right voice, content and form different from the Romantic lyric which he had inherited. It can be called a necessary training course to be a representative Victorian poet. In 1855 he published Men and Women and could say he found his voice at last.