Excerpt from Monogamy: A Series of Dramatic LyricsIt is doubtless unnecessary, but it will not I hope bethought irrelevant, if I add, as a sort of stage-direction, that the dramatic convention in this book varies slightly from poem to poem. Thus, in thefirs't poem, the words are not spoken by the husband to anybody: they are, as it were, thought towards the wife. In the second, they are both thought and (at least partly) spoken, and in the third they are spoken throughout. In th e fourth, again, th ey are spoken, this time not to the wife but to a male acquaintance, in a bar. In thefifth they are not spoken at all, but express thoughts passing through the husband's mind, not, this time, towards, but rather about, the wife. In the sixth, they are spoken to a woman who is not the wife - all except the lastfour lines, which are I think a parenthetic comment of the speaker's own mind, and do not get spoken aloud. And in the seventh we have something which cannot without violence be sharply divided into words spoken to the wife and thoughts thought towards her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.