Dramatic monologue
dramatic monologue, a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience of one or more persons. Such poems reveal not the poets own thoughts but the mind of the impersonated character, whose personality is revealed unwittingly; this distinguishes a dramatic monologue from a lyric, while the implied presence of an auditor distinguishes it from a soliloquy. ... Dramatic Monologue a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment. ... (source: Abrams glossary dramatic monologue has three requirements: 1. ... We complete the dramatic scene from within, by means of inference and imagination. Everyone agrees that to be a dramatic monologue a poem must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and that the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals.