Poetic Form: Cinquain. From A Poet's Glossary: Proverb. Dramatic monologue in poetry, also known as a persona poem, shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue: an audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet speaks through an assumed voiceâa character, a fictional identity, or a persona.
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In the end, Yeager becomes a personification of the many postwar test pilots and their right stuff.. The phrase itself may have originated in the Joseph Conrad story Youth, where it was used. The Right Stuff was published in 1979 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and became Wolfe's best selling book yet.It was praised by most critics, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.olfe wrote that the book was inspired by the desire to find out why the astronauts accepted the danger of space flight. He recounts the enormous risks that test pilots were already taking, and the mental and physical characteristicsâthe titular right stuffârequired for and reinforced by their jobs.