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The Jealous Monk     Robert Brownings, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister involves a jealous monk with much hatred of, Brother Lawrence, the perfect monk. Irony, diction, and syntax are clearly evident in this dramatic monologue.     Throughout the poem the obscure monk is constantly expressing his elicit and sarcasm through the use of syntactical irony. This particular monk is angered at a fellow monk, as prove by "If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, Gods blood, would not mine kill you" which seems ironic knowing he is a religious monk. He is taking out his anger to a great extent, which is not good church practice. Obviously it seems that Brother Lawrence is good at what he does, and the jealous monk hated him for that. The monk goes certify and forth thinking to himself as to what makes Brother Lawrence so perfect. Brother Lawrence is in the churchs secluded Spanish garden where he tends to all the horticulture needs while unaw are of his presence, watches for any mistake he may make. He-he There his lily snaps, his sarcastic laugh shows he is mad and does not make sense. He describes Brother Lawrences every move during and after dinner as he cleans his plate, lays it on own shelf(his) fire-new spoongobletrinsed like something sacrificialmarked with L. for our initial He rambles on about tedious things that Brother Lawrence does. He mocks how he sets his forks and knives not "cross-wise,...