‘The Confessional’ by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue following a woman who is betrayed for her blind faith.
It is a lie---their Priests, their Pope,
Their Saints, their ... all they fear or hope
Are lies, and lies---there! through my door
And ceiling, there! and walls and floor,
There, lies, they lie---shall still be hurled
Till spite of them I reach the world!
‘Life in a Love’ by Robert Browning is an obsessive love poem in which a speaker tells the person they’re in love with that no matter how many times they’re torn down; they’re always going to get back up.Â
Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
‘Summum Bonum’ by Robert Browning is a fairly straightforward and memorable poem about love and how it is far more important, and valuable than any beautiful summer day or shining gemstone.Â
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
Written in response to fellow poet Coventry Patmore’s poem The Angel in the House (1854), ‘A Face’ by Robert Browning explores the poet’s fascination with a lady’s portrait, particularly her facial features depicted in it.
‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’ by Robert Browning features the renowned Venetian composer of the 18th-century, Baldassare Galuppi, and his musical composition or toccata.
‘A Woman’s Last Word’ by Robert Browning is made up of a wife’s request to her husband that they stop arguing for the night and enter into a peaceful sleep.Â
‘Among the Rocks’ is a beautiful lyric poem written from the perspective of James Lee’s wife, a character of Robert Browning’s collection, Dramatis Personae (1864).
‘Andrea del Sarto’ by Robert Browning tells the story of the largely unremarkable career of Andrea del Sarto.
‘Boot and Saddle’ was first published in 1842 under the title ‘My Wife Gertrude’ in Browning’s collection Dramatic Lyrics. This
Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue ‘Confessions,’ as the title says, is written in the confessional mode and is about a speaker’s secretive meetings with a girl.
‘Epilogue’ is a perfect bid-adieu poem to leave behind amidst a great body of poetic works if one is as great a poet as Victorian-era maestro Robert Browning.
‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ by Robert Browning details the difficult, tumultuous, and sometimes scandalous life of the painter Fra Lippo Lippi.
With this poem, Home Thoughts From Abroad, Robert Browning puts himself in the position of one who has been away
‘How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’ by Robert Browning depicts three riders’ attempting to gallop from Ghent to Aix. The speaker makes it there, delivering a critical, although unknown, piece of news.
‘Love Among the Ruins’ by Robert Browning is a Victorian, dramatic poem that uses the metaphor of a destroyed city to speak on love and nature.Â
‘Love in a Life’ is Browning’s unending quest to find his lover in the numerous rooms of their house. By the end, he still has not found her, which alludes to the possibility that the search will continue.
‘Meeting at Night’ by Robert Browning was originally featured in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, which was published in 1845. Here, the poet narrates how the lyrical voice sails across the sea to reach his beloved.
As the first two stanzas of ‘Memorabilia’Â suggest, this piece springs from an encounter that Browning had with someone who met
‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is a well-known dramatic monologue. It suggests that the speaker has killed his wife and will soon do the same to the next.
Never the Time and the Place by Robert Browning explores the impossibility of being with a lover at the right
Robert Browning’s ‘Now’ describes a perfect moment of ecstasy between two lovers, capturing it in an improvisation on the traditional sonnet form.
In ‘Parting at Morning’ Browning uses clear diction and syntax to speak about the experience of seeing the world anew
‘Pippa’s Song’Â celebrates the “rightness” of the world in a deceptively light-hearted and peaceful moment.
Robert Browning’s poem, ‘Porphyria’s Lover,’ opens up with a classic setting of a stormy evening. It is a story of a deranged and lovesick man.
In ‘Prospice’ by Robert Browning, the speaker talks of facing death bravely and being reunited with his soulmate. Read the poem, with a complete analysis.
‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’ was published in Browning’s collection Dramatic Lyrics in 1842. The speaker, as is made clear
‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’ by Robert Browning reveals the deep rooted fears and lack of belief in the heart of one of the church leaders.
‘The Laboratory’ is one of Browning’s most popular dramatic monologues in which we discover the evil schemings of a spurned wife, plotting the demise of her rival.
‘The Last Ride Together’ by Robert Browning is an excellent dramatic monologue that deals with a lover’s last wish to his beloved.
In ‘The Lost Leader’, Browning criticises those who have abandoned liberal political ideologies and embraced the conservative lifestyle.
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