Monologue

Serapion Monologue from All for Love

From All for Love by John Dryden

male · dramatic · 59 sec

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Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flowed ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce, That the wild deluge overtook the haste Even of the hinds that watched it: Men and beasts Were borne above the tops of trees, that grew On the utmost margin of the water-mark. Then, with so swift an ebb the flood drove backward, It slipt from underneath the scaly herd: Here monstrous phocae panted on the shore; Forsaken dolphins there with their broad tails, Lay lashing the departing waves: hard by them, Sea horses floundering in the slimy mud, Tossed up their heads, and dashed the ooze about them.

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Serapion describes a catastrophic flood that defies natural order, reflecting on the chaos and fear it brings to both humans and animals.

40s · fear · fate · nature · chaos · power

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