soliloquy

SOLIL'OQUY, n. [L. solus, alone, and loquor, to speak.]

1. A talking to one's self; a talking or discourse of a person alone, or not addressed to another person, even when others are persent. Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy.

2. A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person speaks to himself. The whole poem is a solioquy.