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Robert Browning
This poem is a dramatic monologue of a rejected lover who expresses his undying love for his beloved. The title gives the idea that this is their last time together and the speaker is attempting to...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning, a cherished poet of the Victorian era, has many of his poems filled with unbridled optimism. By the term “Optimism”, one means positive attitude or thought process. If you are...
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Robert Browning
'Parting at Morning' is the companion poem to 'Meeting at Night' which details a lovers' tryst. 'Parting at Morning' is about the two lovers going their separate ways the next day. There has been...
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Robert Browning
Browning does indeed seem to have a philosophy about success and failure in life. I would suggest that failure for Browning would be in not even trying. This thought appears in a few of his poems...
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Robert Browning
In Robert Browning’s poem titled “Incident of the French Camp,” the speaker describes a boy serving in the army of Napoleon as that army attempts to capture a city known as “Ratisbon.” As Napoleon...
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Robert Browning
Here are some notes and outline points to help you write a response to this question: The monologue's characteristics: give a psychological portrait of a powerful Renaissance aristocrat is...
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Robert Browning
The dramatic monologue as developed by the Victorian poet Robert Browning is a genre in which a single character is speaking to either an explicit (as in My Last Duchess or the Bishop Orders his...
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Robert Browning
Browning's dramatic monologue 'The Last Ride Together' is an exploration of the end of a love affair. The affair has been ended by the woman, however Browning is suggesting, through his narrator,...
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Robert Browning
The welcome scene and the departure scene, as you call them, are sort of mirror images of one another. They show how the fortunes of the speaker have been turned completely around in the year that...
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Robert Browning
Browning's philosophy about love is very interesting in this poem and seems surprisingly modern in that the woman seems to have control, as she has ended the affair. Browning is describing the end...
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Robert Browning
The meaning of the word optimism (according to Dictionary.com) means: a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable...
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Robert Browning
Many critics argue that Browning presents the reader with a very different kind of tone compared to other Victorian poets, such as Arnold and Tennyson, whose works are clearly impacted greatly by...
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Robert Browning
The speaker in the poem does not define success or failure in love through conventional means. It is the opportunity to revel in one "last ride together" that drives the speaker. Whether one...
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Robert Browning
Browning was indeed a poet closely associated with the dramatic monologue; some more famous examples are 'My Last Duchess', 'Porhyria's Lover' and 'The Laboratory'. The reason he often chose to...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning's poem "Two in the Campagna" is a formal English poem, which features great intensity of emotion from the narrator of this work. The poem is a fine example of the internal musings...
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Robert Browning
In some ways this is a typical poem by Browning in that it is a dramatic monologue; this means that Browning is writing in the first person as a created character. The poem is addressed to the...
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Robert Browning
Unfortunately, we have a limitation on the length of our answers here (roughly 600 words), and Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" is more than 2,100 words by itself. This makes your...
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Robert Browning
The most obvious statement about art is in “Fra Lippo Lippi,” in which Browning, in Lippi’s voice, defends the artist’s life, his balance of art and commerce, and his impulse to visualize the...
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Robert Browning
This poem can have several interpretations, but I think that a broad explanation of it circles around the fickle nature of the public. The protagonist in the poem sacrificed for his nation. We can...
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Robert Browning
The moral question that this poem brings up is how dangerous is it to be truthful in a relationship? Is it possible that telling the truth can be more harmful than lying? For the speaker, truth...
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Robert Browning
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker of this monologue is sitting alone in a cottage with a rain storm raging outside. The speaker is doing nothing but listening and apparently he is disturbed...
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Robert Browning
The dramatic situation of Robert Browning's The Last Ride Together appears to be one in which the lover, upon being rejected by his mistress, asks for, and is granted, one last horseback ride with...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning's poem "One Way of Love" depicts a young suitor desperate to catch the eye of his lady. This poem's theme is unrequited love. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his first...
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Robert Browning
The poem “Two in the Campagna” by Robert Browning is a love poem addressed to his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the poem, the narrator recalls being seated outdoors in rural Italy; the...
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Robert Browning
Psychoanalysis involves understanding the motivations behind our behaviors, especially motivations that are unconscious. Browning, of course, did not have the advantages of knowing about modern...
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Robert Browning
The speaker in the poem is not a friar but a monk named Lippo Lippi—the "fra" in his name means "Brother," which is what a monk would be called. Fra Lippo Lippi is caught outside the monastery...
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Robert Browning
In the fifth line of the poem, "I listened with heart fit to break," the speaker seems to be feeling something like despair or near hopelessness. Perhaps he is afraid that Porphyria, his lover,...
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Robert Browning
In this poem Robert Browning seems very philosophical about what a heartbroken suitor should do if he or she cannot get the person they want in terms of love - and how to cope with rejection. He is...
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Robert Browning
Browning clearly distinguishes himself as a poet through his use of the dramatic monologue to portray characterisation and theme. What he manages to achieve through his use of this poetic form is...
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Robert Browning
Iambic pentameter in "Love Among the Ruins" has a really piercing effect on the poem, in that, the longer line reads smoothly, then the shorter, three syllable line emphasizes meaning, in a...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning’s poem, “A Woman’s Last Word” portrays a narrator talking to her beloved. It is probably quasi-autobiographical, reflection the situation of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning...
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Robert Browning
Though many of us have a tendency to view Victorian society as quaint, repressed, and proper, and though there is some truth in this perception, the nineteenth-century world was similar to our own...
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Robert Browning
The first tactic you should use in scanning a poem is to look for words containing more than one syllable. Start with the line: If showing mine so caused to bleed The word "showing" can only be...
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Robert Browning
There are more differences than similarities between the two poems. The chief similarity is that they are both about love (or what a character in a poem thinks love is). One could argue that the...
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Robert Browning
"Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning is not a soliloquy. A soliloquy is a speech with a play given by a character who is not speaking to other characters on the stage. One can think of it as the...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning's dramatic monologues are normally written in the first person. Sometimes the narrator is portrayed as speaking the monologue aloud to an actual silent auditor, as in My Last...
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Robert Browning
This two stanza poem by Browning effectively captures the feelings of nostalgia and longing for the homeland whilst you are abroad and miles away from the sights, scents and feelings that make up...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning’s poem, “A Light Woman” has two themes common to Browning’s work. The first is that it is self-reflexive, in that its ultimate theme is not the woman or the friend, but that the...
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Robert Browning
Tennyson and Browning are Victorian period poets. Victorianism differs from Romanticism in dramatic ways. For instance, Romanticism presented an idealized view of nature and of the joys of simple...
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Robert Browning
In poems such as "Andrea del Sarto," Browning wants to explore the dilemma shared by many artists: should one try to achieve high art or remain content with commercial success? The subject of this...
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Robert Browning
Browning often uses fictive narrators or characters to provide viewpoints through which to illuminate real characters of the past. The Bishop who is ordering a tomb, for example, although fictive,...
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Robert Browning
One of the ways that critics distinguish Browning from other poets of his era is the faith that he had in God and in his faith, which allowed him to dismiss the kind of scientific knowledge that...
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Robert Browning
This poem depicts an English speaker who is abroad and missing home very much. The arrival of the season of spring in England is making his longing for home especially hard. Browning uses a great...
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Robert Browning
I think that Browning's 'The Last Ride Together' is not what you could traditionally describe as a love poem but rather it explores some of the philosophical ideas behind love. Browning is...
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Robert Browning
This poem covers many themes that Browning was fond of such as corruption in the church. If the Bishop was religious, as he should have been, then how does he have sons? This was forbidden by the...
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Robert Browning
In this poem, "Incident of the French Camp," a boy who has been badly wounded does not stop riding his horse until he reaches a mound where Napoleon stands, anxiously awaiting news of the outcome...
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Robert Browning
I think it could reflect how soldiers feel, yes. Whenever one is away from home for an extended period of time, one's thoughts inevitably turn to home and the comforts it offers him or her. Home...
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Robert Browning
Having never read this poem, I was curious and looked it up. I agree it did not grab or inspire me to read it any further. It did give me pause to wonder why we assume that there should be...
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Robert Browning
The speakers in "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess" are both men. Most importantly, they are men who are telling us, the readers, about their experiences with a lover. These relationships...
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Robert Browning
Here are the names of the plays written by Robert Browning that I was able to find: 1. "Strafford" (1837) 2. "Pipa Passes" (1841- Published in Bells and Pomegranates, No. I) 3. "King Victor and...