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The statement ââ¬Å"Anyone who says you canââ¬â¢t see an idea basically doesnââ¬â¢t know artâ⬠by Wynetka Ann Reynolds. Rey...
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Eminems Stan Following the Form of a Dramatic...
The song ââ¬Å"Stanâ⬠by rap artist Eminem fits the dramatic monologue format popularized by Robert Browning, because in Eminemââ¬â¢s song, Stan fits all of the characteristics of the Duke in My last Douches. Stan is extremely obsessive; in the beginning of the song he dies his hair and is trying to actually become Slim Shady, even his outfit and style are the same as Slim and is screaming in his girlfriendââ¬â¢s face because she keeps calling him Stanly when I would imagine he would want to be called Slim, or Eminem, or Marshal, and just the fact that you would write not one but multiple letters, as he mentions in the song, to a celebrity in the first place is just a bit weird and obsessive in a way because he is so obsessed with just wanting to talkâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦Stan is extremely suicidal but doesnââ¬â¢t really show it until verse two, saying that he sometimes cuts himself, which I imagine he would be doing often, just to see how much he can bleed, just because of the fact that a person he has met once and is very famous and busy will not write him back, in verse 3 Stanley says that he is driving 90 miles an hour on the freeway after drinking alcohol driving towards the end of a bridge, if he is not asking to
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