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The green-eyed Monk     Robert Brownings, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister involves a covetous monastic with much hatred of, pal Lawrence, the perfect monk. Irony, diction, and syntax ar clearly evident in this dramatic monologue.     Throughout the poem the unsung monk is constantly expressing his anger and sarcasm through the use of syntactic irony. This particular monk is angered at a fellow monk, as evidenced by "If hate violent deathed men, Brother Lawrence, Gods blood, would not mine kill you" which seems ironic knowing he is a religious monk. He is pickings 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 back 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 gardening nee ds while oblivious(predicate) of his presence, watches for any mistake he may make. He-he There his lily snaps, his sarcastic express feelings 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 sacrificial label 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,...