42/55 The little "H.C., six years old," is "a dewdrop which the morn brings forth," that "at the touch of wrong, without a strife, Slips in a moment out of life." Pippa, with all her ideality and her upward gaze, has her roots in earth; she is not the dewdrop but the flower. His own intense isolating self-consciousness infused itself into them. Each is a little island kingdom, judged and justified by its own laws, and not entirely intelligible to the foreigner. Hence his persistent use of the dramatic monologue. Every man had his point of view, and his right to state his case. |