Guide to the Other Gallery (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dana Gioia
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
The Poem
Like many of Dana Gioia’s poems, “Guide to the Other Gallery” is highly structured and traditional. Composed of six iambic tetrameter quatrains, the poem is set as a dramatic monologue reminiscent of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” both in its form and its surface subject, a guide showing artistic possessions to a visitor. Unlike in Browning’s poem, the guide is not revealing exceptional pieces of art but the castoffs, the broken, useless, decayed, and unidentifiable objects kept in a back room for some unexplained reason, possibly because they were...
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