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Famous Monodrama Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Monodrama poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous monodrama poems. These examples illustrate what a famous monodrama poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Sappho - A Monodrama

...Argument.

To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be
a remedy for hopeless love, if the self-devoted victim escaped with
life. Artemisia lost her life in the dangerous experiment: and Sappho is
said thus to have perished, in attempting to cure her passion for Phaon.


SAPPHO

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by Southey, Robert

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