Monologue

The Man Monologue from The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

From The Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 1:07 min

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No less. We are poor things, we men and women-- (THE LADY: Dare you call me woman?) What nobler name can I tender you? How else can I love you? Yet you may well shrink from the name: have I not said we are but poor things? Yet there is a power that can redeem us. (THE LADY: Gramercy for your sermon, sir. I hope I know my duty.) This is no sermon, but the living truth. The power I speak of is the power of immortal poesy. For know that vile as this world is, and worms as we are, you have but to invest all this vileness with a magical garment of words to transfigure us and uplift our souls til earth flowers into a million heavens.

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30s · hope · redemption · identity · power · love

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