Below is a monologue poem from season 2 episode 3 of the FX TV show “The Bear”, where the lead character, Carmen, is sharing his thoughts at an Al-Anon support group.
This monologue is interesting because it’s one long 27 line stanza where each line has an internal rhyme scheme.
As I told you in my last post where I broke down a monologue poem from the Netflix tv show, “The Lincoln Lawyer”, the more you internalize the rhyme scheme, the more intellectualized the poem will sound.
But unlike that “The Lincoln Lawyer” poem, the speaker in this “The Bear” poem does not jump on and off beat with the internal rhyme like a jazz musician.
The speaker in this “The Bear” poem reveals lots of social awkwardness and social anxiety as he stutters his way through line after line of internal rhymes without taking a break.
The stuttering shows that while this speaker is super intellectual, he also has a lack of confidence and needs extra time to finish his thoughts.
This speaker just stutters and rambles on until all of his thoughts are spoken. This is a stream of consciousness monologue where the speaker just says whatever comes to mind about a particular subject.
If I were to perform this monologue poem, I would emphasize the speaker’s flaws, like the lack of confidence and extra time needed to finish his thoughts which is shown by the stuttering. I would just allow my social anxiety to reveal itself more and more as I ramble through each line until a weight was lifted off of my chest.
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James Ivan 