Count Gismond

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This paper offers an explication of the poem "Count Gismond Aix in Provence" by Robert Browning in which the speaker is revealed to be a young woman whose honor has been besmirched and is then defended by her champion, Count Gismond. The writer describes that she has been dishonored by her own cousin, a man named Count Gauthier. The writer further explains that Gismond steps forward and protects her, defending her honor as in a medieval drama.

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"Robert Browning was noted for his dramatic poems, monologues in which the speech of the narrator illustrates a dramatic event and through which meaning was conveyed by the story told, by the attitude and response of the speaker, and by the poetic devices included by the poet. These elements can be seen in the dramatic monologue in the poem "Count Gismond Aix in Provence" in which the speaker is revealed to be a young woman whose honor has been besmirched and is then defended by her champion, Count Gismond. She has been dishonored by her own cousin, a man named Count Gauthier."

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