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This document provides summaries and analysis of numerous poems by Robert Browning, including A Grammarian's Funeral, A Pretty Woman, A Face, A Woman's Last Word, Andrea del Sarto, A Toccata of Galuppi's, Among the Rocks, Boot and Saddle, Confessions, Epilogue, Fra Lippo Lippi, Home Thoughts From Abroad, Love in a Life, Meeting at Night, Memorabilia, My Last Duchess, Never the Time and the Place, Now, Parting at Morning, Pippa's Song, Porphyria's Lover, Prospice, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The Bishop Orders His Tomb

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1 Robert Browning Selected poems features depicted in it. Contents A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning Summary ...............................................................16 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................16 Part 1 .....................................................................................................................................................17 Part 2 .....................................................................................................................................................19 Part 3 .....................................................................................................................................................23 Part 4 .....................................................................................................................................................25 Part 5 .....................................................................................................................................................27 A Pretty Woman By Robert Browning............................................................................................28 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................28 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................31 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................32 Georg Joseph Vogler................................................................................................................................33 Contents ...............................................................................................................................................34 Biography[edit]......................................................................................................................................34 A Pretty Woman Summary ..........................................................................................................38 A Pretty Woman Analysis........................................................................................................................38 Sponsor...............................................................................................................................................41 A Pretty Woman Analysis ............................................................................................................42 A Face by Robert Browning ....................................................................................................................44 Explore A Face .......................................................................................................................................45 Summary................................................................................................................................................46 Detailed Analysis...................................................................................................................................46 Lines 1-3.............................................................................................................................................46 Lines 4-10...........................................................................................................................................47 Lines 11-13 ........................................................................................................................................48 Lines 14-22 ........................................................................................................................................48 Structure and Form...............................................................................................................................49 Literary Devices.....................................................................................................................................50 Historical Context..................................................................................................................................51
2 Robert Browning Selected poems FAQs .......................................................................................................................................................51 A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning ........................................................................................52 Summary of A Woman’s Last Word ......................................................................................................53 Analysis of A Woman’s Last Word ........................................................................................................53 Stanza One..........................................................................................................................................53 Stanza Two.........................................................................................................................................54 Stanza Three ......................................................................................................................................55 Stanza Four ........................................................................................................................................55 Stanza Five.........................................................................................................................................56 Stanza Six ...........................................................................................................................................56 Stanza Seven ......................................................................................................................................57 Stanza Eight .......................................................................................................................................57 Stanza Nine ........................................................................................................................................58 Stanza Ten..........................................................................................................................................59 Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning ..................................................................................................59 Explore Andrea del Sarto......................................................................................................................59 Summary................................................................................................................................................60 Analysis of Andrea del Sarto................................................................................................................61 Lines 1-10 ..........................................................................................................................................61 Lines 11-20 ........................................................................................................................................62 Lines 21-28 ........................................................................................................................................63 Lines 29-40 ........................................................................................................................................64 Lines 41- 51 .......................................................................................................................................65 Lines 52-59 ........................................................................................................................................66 Lines 60-67 ........................................................................................................................................67 Lines 68-77 ........................................................................................................................................68 Lines 78-87 ........................................................................................................................................68 Lines 88-96 ........................................................................................................................................69 Lines 97-106 ......................................................................................................................................70 Lines 107-114....................................................................................................................................71 Lines 115-126....................................................................................................................................72 Lines 127-136....................................................................................................................................73
3 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 137-148....................................................................................................................................74 Lines 149- 161...................................................................................................................................75 Lines 162- 171...................................................................................................................................76 Lines 172-182....................................................................................................................................77 Lines 183-193....................................................................................................................................78 Lines 194- 204...................................................................................................................................79 Lines 205- 213...................................................................................................................................81 Lines 214-223....................................................................................................................................81 Lines 224-234....................................................................................................................................82 Lines 235- 243...................................................................................................................................83 Lines 244-252....................................................................................................................................84 Lines 253-267....................................................................................................................................85 About Robert Browning.......................................................................................................................87 A Toccata of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning.........................................................................................87 Explore A Toccata of Galuppi's.............................................................................................................88 Summary................................................................................................................................................88 Structure ................................................................................................................................................89 Literary Devices.....................................................................................................................................89 Analysis of A Toccata of Galuppi’s ......................................................................................................90 Tercets I – III (1-3).............................................................................................................................90 Tercets IV – VI (4-6) ..........................................................................................................................91 Tercets VII – IX (7-9) .........................................................................................................................92 Tercets X – XII (10-12) ......................................................................................................................93 Tercets XIII – XV (13-15)...................................................................................................................95 Historical Context .................................................................................................................................96 Similar Poetry ........................................................................................................................................96 Among the Rocks by Robert Browning .................................................................................................97 Explore Among the Rocks.....................................................................................................................99 Summary................................................................................................................................................99 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................100 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................100
4 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................100 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................101 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................102 Themes.................................................................................................................................................102 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................103 Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning ................................................................................................103 Explore Andrea del Sarto....................................................................................................................104 Summary..............................................................................................................................................104 Analysis of Andrea del Sarto..............................................................................................................105 Lines 1-10 ........................................................................................................................................105 Lines 11-20 ......................................................................................................................................106 Lines 21-28 ......................................................................................................................................107 Lines 29-40 ......................................................................................................................................108 Lines 41- 51 .....................................................................................................................................109 Lines 52-59 ......................................................................................................................................110 Lines 60-67 ......................................................................................................................................111 Lines 68-77 ......................................................................................................................................112 Lines 78-87 ......................................................................................................................................113 Lines 88-96 ......................................................................................................................................114 Lines 97-106 ....................................................................................................................................115 Lines 107-114..................................................................................................................................116 Lines 115-126..................................................................................................................................117 Lines 127-136..................................................................................................................................118 Lines 137-148..................................................................................................................................119 Lines 149- 161.................................................................................................................................120 Lines 162- 171.................................................................................................................................121 Lines 172-182..................................................................................................................................122 Lines 183-193..................................................................................................................................123 Lines 194- 204.................................................................................................................................124 Lines 205- 213.................................................................................................................................125 Lines 214-223..................................................................................................................................126
5 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 224-234..................................................................................................................................127 Lines 235- 243.................................................................................................................................128 Lines 244-252..................................................................................................................................129 Lines 253-267..................................................................................................................................130 Boot and Saddle by Robert Browning.......................................................................................131 Explore Boot and Saddle.....................................................................................................................132 Summary of Boot and Saddle..............................................................................................................132 Structure of Boot and Saddle ..............................................................................................................132 Poetic Techniques in Boot and Saddle ...............................................................................................133 Analysis of Boot and Saddle ................................................................................................................133 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................133 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................134 Lines 9-12.........................................................................................................................................135 Lines 13-16 ......................................................................................................................................136 nfessions by Robert Browning..............................................................................................................136 Explore Confessions............................................................................................................................139 Summary.............................................................................................................................................140 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................140 Lines 1-8...........................................................................................................................................140 Lines 9-16.........................................................................................................................................141 Lines 17-24 ......................................................................................................................................142 Lines 25-36 ......................................................................................................................................143 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................145 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................145 Theme...................................................................................................................................................146 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................146 Epilogue by Robert Browning ..............................................................................................................147 Explore Epilogue .................................................................................................................................149 Summary.............................................................................................................................................150 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................150 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................150 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................151 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................151
6 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................152 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................153 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................154 Theme...................................................................................................................................................155 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................155 Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning ..................................................................................................156 Explore Fra Lippo Lippi ......................................................................................................................156 Summary..............................................................................................................................................157 Analysis of Fra Lippo Lippi..................................................................................................................158 Lines 1-14.........................................................................................................................................158 Lines 15-25 ......................................................................................................................................160 Lines 26- 38 .....................................................................................................................................161 Lines 39-50 ......................................................................................................................................162 Lines 51- 61 .....................................................................................................................................163 Lines 62- 75 .....................................................................................................................................164 Lines 76- 87 .....................................................................................................................................165 Lines 88- 105 ...................................................................................................................................167 Lines 106-126..................................................................................................................................168 Lines 127- 142.................................................................................................................................170 Lines 143-164..................................................................................................................................171 Lines 165- 178.................................................................................................................................173 Lines 179-198..................................................................................................................................174 Lines 199- 215.................................................................................................................................175 Lines 216-231..................................................................................................................................176 Lines 232- 250.................................................................................................................................178 Lines 251-270..................................................................................................................................179 Lines 271- 293.................................................................................................................................181 Lines 294-310..................................................................................................................................183 Lines 311-336..................................................................................................................................184 Lines 337- 360.................................................................................................................................186 Lines 361- 376.................................................................................................................................188 Lines 347- 363.................................................................................................................................190 Summary of Fra Lippo Lippi .............................................................................................................191
7 Robert Browning Selected poems Analysis of Literary Devices Used in “Fra Lippo Lippi”.................................................................193 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “Fra Lippo Lippi”...................................................................193 3. O' Lyric Love ...................................................................................................................................194 Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning.........................................................................195 Home Thoughts From Abroad Analysis ............................................................................................195 Stanza One ......................................................................................................................................195 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................196 Love in a Life by Robert Browning ......................................................................................................198 Summary of Love in a Life...................................................................................................................200 Analysis of Love in a Life .....................................................................................................................200 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................200 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................201 Meeting at Night by Robert Browning ................................................................................................202 Explore Meeting at Night ....................................................................................................................203 Summary..............................................................................................................................................203 Meaning................................................................................................................................................204 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................204 Themes.................................................................................................................................................205 Analysis of Meeting at Night...............................................................................................................205 Lines 1–2..........................................................................................................................................205 Lines 3–4..........................................................................................................................................206 Lines 5–6..........................................................................................................................................206 Lines 7–8..........................................................................................................................................207 Lines 9–10........................................................................................................................................208 Lines 11–12......................................................................................................................................209 About Robert Browning......................................................................................................................210 Memorabilia by Robert Browning .......................................................................................................211 Explore Memorabilia...........................................................................................................................211 Summary of Memorabilia....................................................................................................................211 Themes in Memorabilia.......................................................................................................................212 Structure of Memorabilia....................................................................................................................212 Literary Devices in Memorabilia ........................................................................................................213 Analysis of Memorabilia......................................................................................................................213
8 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza One........................................................................................................................................213 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................214 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................215 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................215 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning ................................................................................................216 Explore My Last Duchess....................................................................................................................216 Summary..............................................................................................................................................217 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................217 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................218 My Last Duchess Analysis....................................................................................................................218 Section 1...........................................................................................................................................218 Section 2...........................................................................................................................................220 Section 3...........................................................................................................................................221 Section 4...........................................................................................................................................222 Section 5...........................................................................................................................................223 Explore Never the Time and the Place...............................................................................................224 Summary..............................................................................................................................................225 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................225 Never the Time and the Place Analysis...............................................................................................226 Lines 1-5...........................................................................................................................................226 Lines 6-11.........................................................................................................................................227 Lines 12-22 ......................................................................................................................................228 Now by Robert Browning......................................................................................................................229 Now Analysis........................................................................................................................................231 Parting at Morning by Robert Browning.................................................................................233 Explore Parting at Morning ................................................................................................................234 Summary of Parting at Morning.........................................................................................................234 Structure of Parting at Morning .........................................................................................................235 Literary Devices in Parting at Morning..............................................................................................235 Analysis of Parting at Morning...........................................................................................................236 Lines 1-2...........................................................................................................................................236 Lines 3-4...........................................................................................................................................236 Pippa’s Song by Robert Browning..............................................................................................237
9 Robert Browning Selected poems Explore Pippa's Song...........................................................................................................................237 Summary of Pippa’s Song....................................................................................................................238 Context .................................................................................................................................................238 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................238 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................239 Analysis of Pippa’s Song......................................................................................................................239 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................240 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................240 Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning ...................................................................................241 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis..................................................................................................................242 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................242 Lines 5-9...........................................................................................................................................242 Lines 10-13 ......................................................................................................................................243 Lines 14-17 ......................................................................................................................................244 Lines 18-20 ......................................................................................................................................244 Lines 21-25 ......................................................................................................................................245 Lines 26-29 ......................................................................................................................................246 Lines 30-35 ......................................................................................................................................247 Lines 36-42 ......................................................................................................................................247 Lines 43-51 ......................................................................................................................................248 Lines 52-55 ......................................................................................................................................249 Lines 56-60 ......................................................................................................................................250 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................251 Prospice by Robert Browning ......................................................................................................251 Explore Prospice..................................................................................................................................254 Summary..............................................................................................................................................254 Meaning................................................................................................................................................255 Imagery ................................................................................................................................................255 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................256 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................256 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................256 Lines 9-12.........................................................................................................................................257 Lines 13-16 ......................................................................................................................................257
10 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 17-20 ......................................................................................................................................258 Lines 21-24 ......................................................................................................................................259 Lines 25-28 ......................................................................................................................................259 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................260 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning .....................................................260 Explore Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ....................................................................................261 Summary..............................................................................................................................................261 Themes.................................................................................................................................................262 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................262 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................263 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................263 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................264 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................264 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................265 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................266 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................267 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................268 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................269 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................270 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................270 The Bishop Orders His Tomb by Robert Browning.............................................................271 The Bishop Orders His Tomb Analysis ................................................................................................272 Lines 1-13.........................................................................................................................................272 Lines 14-30 ......................................................................................................................................274 Lines 31-44 ......................................................................................................................................275 Lines 45-56 ......................................................................................................................................276 Lines 56-67 ......................................................................................................................................278 Lines 68-75 ......................................................................................................................................279 Lines 76-84 ......................................................................................................................................279 Lines 85-93 ......................................................................................................................................280 Lines 94-118....................................................................................................................................282 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................284 The Laboratory by Robert Browning...................................................................................................285
11 Robert Browning Selected poems Explore Te Laboratory........................................................................................................................285 Summary..............................................................................................................................................286 Form and meter...................................................................................................................................286 Analysis The Laboratory .....................................................................................................................286 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................286 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................287 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................288 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................288 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................289 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................290 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................290 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................291 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................292 Stanza Ten........................................................................................................................................293 Stanza Eleven...................................................................................................................................293 Stanza Twelve..................................................................................................................................294 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................295 The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning.........................................................................295 Explore The Last Ride Together.........................................................................................................296 Summary of The Last Ride Together...................................................................................................296 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................297 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................297 Themes.................................................................................................................................................298 Analysis of The Last Ride Together.....................................................................................................298 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................299 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................300 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................301 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................302 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................303 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................305 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................306 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................307 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................309
12 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Ten........................................................................................................................................310 The Last Ride Together as a Dramatic Monologue ............................................................................311 Historical Context................................................................................................................................312 The Lost Leader by Robert Browning.......................................................................................313 Explore The Lost Leader.....................................................................................................................315 Summary..............................................................................................................................................315 Structure, Form, and Rhyme Scheme.................................................................................................316 Themes.................................................................................................................................................316 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................316 Punctuation......................................................................................................................................317 Speaker.................................................................................................................................................317 Context .................................................................................................................................................318 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................318 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................318 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................321 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................324 The Patriot by Robert Browning.................................................................................................325 Explore The Patriot .............................................................................................................................325 Summary..............................................................................................................................................326 Themes.................................................................................................................................................326 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................326 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................327 The Patriot Analysis ............................................................................................................................327 First Stanza ......................................................................................................................................327 Second Stanza..................................................................................................................................328 Third Stanza.....................................................................................................................................329 Fourth and Fifth Stanzas.................................................................................................................329 Sixth Stanza......................................................................................................................................331 The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning ...............................................................................332 Explore The Pied Piper of Hamelin....................................................................................................332 Summary..............................................................................................................................................332 Themes.................................................................................................................................................333 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................333
13 Robert Browning Selected poems Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................334 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................335 Part I.................................................................................................................................................335 Part II................................................................................................................................................335 Part III...............................................................................................................................................336 Part IV...............................................................................................................................................337 Part V................................................................................................................................................339 Part VI...............................................................................................................................................340 Part VII .............................................................................................................................................341 Part VIII............................................................................................................................................345 Part IX...............................................................................................................................................345 Parts X and XI...................................................................................................................................347 Part XII..............................................................................................................................................348 Part XIII ............................................................................................................................................349 Part XIV ............................................................................................................................................352 Part XV..............................................................................................................................................355 The Wanderers by Robert Browning...................................................................................................356 Explore The Wanderers......................................................................................................................356 Summary of The Wanderers................................................................................................................356 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................357 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................358 Analysis of The Wanderers..................................................................................................................358 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................358 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................362 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................364 Historical Context................................................................................................................................366 Two in Campagna by Robert Browning ...................................................................................366 Explore Two in Campagna..................................................................................................................367 Summary..............................................................................................................................................367 Themes.................................................................................................................................................368 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................368 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................369 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................370
14 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza One........................................................................................................................................370 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................370 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................371 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................372 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................372 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................373 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................373 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................374 Stanzas Nine and Ten......................................................................................................................375 Stanzas Eleven and Twelve.............................................................................................................376 You’ll love me yet by Robert Browning ...............................................................................................377 Explore You'll love me yet ..................................................................................................................377 Summary..............................................................................................................................................377 Themes.................................................................................................................................................378 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................378 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................378 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................379 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................379 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................380 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................381 AD's English Literature ......................................................................................................................381 Analysing Deep and Profound Philosophy in Robert Browning’s "Rabi Ben Ezra" ...........381 High Hopes and Aspirations: ...............................................................................................382 Equipping the Soul:..................................................................................................................382 Trials and Tribulations:..........................................................................................................383 Spiritual Advancement:..........................................................................................................384 Making Judgment:....................................................................................................................385 Supreme Faith:...........................................................................................................................385 The Potter and the Clay: .........................................................................................................386 The Supreme Creator:.............................................................................................................387 Rabbi Ben Ezra......................................................................................................................................387 Critical Analysis of Rabbi Ben Ezra ............................................................................................................399 Stanzas I-V.................................................................................................................................................400
15 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanzas VI-X...............................................................................................................................................400 Stanzas XI-XV.............................................................................................................................................401 Stanzas XVI-XX...........................................................................................................................................401 Stanzas XXI- XXV........................................................................................................................................402 Stanzas XXVI-XXXII ....................................................................................................................................402 To sum up..................................................................................................................................................402 Style and allegory......................................................................................................................................404 The lost mistress .......................................................................................................................................404 Summary of The Lost Mistress .............................................................................................................405 Explanation With Reference to Context .........................................................................................406 Questions-Answer (Short Type) ...................................................................................................409 Essay Type Question......................................................................................................................411 The Lost Mistress...................................................................................................................................412 The Lost Mistress...............................................................................................................................412 Summary of The Lost Mistress ........................................................................................................413 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “The Lost Mistress”..............................................................414 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “The Lost Mistress”..............................................................415 Robert Browning 'Youth and Art' Analysis..........................................................................................415
16 Robert Browning Selected poems A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning Summary You're here: Home » English Poems With Summary Table of Contents • Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Further Reading Introduction A Grammarian’s Funeral is quite an interesting poem of Renaissance time. In this poem, a grammarian (quester of knowledge) has died prem- aturely as he spent all his life reading the books and commentaries. He gave up all the joys and dedicated his life to read and learn. Now his stu- dents are taking his corpse to the mountains as they believe that he de- serves a high place to rest. One of his students (or disciples) is narrating the eulogy while the corpse is being taken to the mountains. He narrates how the grammarian spent his life while others listen to him. Hence it is a dramatic monologue. But, this poem is ironic. The students are praising their master for his quest for knowledge, but ironically the poet is revealing how the gram- marian wasted his life by avoiding the world, its beauty, art, and pleasure (which is a gift from God). Instead of enjoying life, the grammarian locked himself in the room to read the books. In addition, there is absolutely no contribution of grammarian towards the society. He spends his life in the room and remains lost in the books. He never does anything for society, nor gains from his life. He loses his youth (the best time of life), his eyesight, beauty and dies prematurely. He considers the joys of life useless and instead hopes for joy in the afterlife (which is ironic). He forgets that this life is a gift from God and is meant to be en- joyed.
17 Robert Browning Selected poems The poem A Grammarian’s Funeral is quite long and was published in ‘The Men and Women’ in 1855. It has 148 lines and a definite rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefef which also depicts the marching of disciples. Let us try to understand what disciple has to say and how Browning re- veals Grammarian’s wrong way of living life. Part 1 Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes Each in its tether Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain, Cared-for till cock-crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row! That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture! All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels;
18 Robert Browning Selected poems Clouds overcome it; No! yonder sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit. Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our master, famous, calm and dead, Borne on our shoulders. The disciple says, “Let us begin and carry up this corpse”. So the poem begins with carrying the corpse of the grammarian to the grave. The dis- ciple suggests singing together for the grammarian. They now leave the common crofts and the vulgar thorpes (i.e. villages and fields of common people) which are tethered (small, as compared to the knowledge and thoughts of grammarian), The people of villages remain sleeping safe (do not care about knowledge and philosophy) on the bosom (top) of the plain (village) and remain concerned about cock-crow i.e. worldly matters (like animals and plants). The disciple then asks his fellows (who are carrying the corpse) to look far away at the rock-row (high land or mountains) where the day (probably refers to life) does not rim (limits the thoughts). In other words, moun- tains are ideal places as are high like the thoughts of the grammarian. According to the disciple, it is the appropriate country (best place). There, a man’s thoughts are rare, intense, and remain self-gath- ered (united) for an outbreak as they chafe the censer i.e. they go against the restraints and limited knowledge. In other words, mountains are high and are free unlike plains (which are surrounded by things).
19 Robert Browning Selected poems The disciple says that they will leave the unlettered (unedu- cated) plain (villages) and its herd and crop (i.e. animals and plants) and seek the sepulture (do the burial of grammarian) on a tall moun- tain which is citied to the top (i.e. remains high and symbolizes learning) and crowded with culture. The word culture seems to be ironic because nobody lives there. It proba- bly refers to learning and high morals (symbolized by the tall mountain). But ironically, it refers to something which has no value for humanity. It is like the grammarian’s own life which he spent in a room without contrib- uting to society. According to the disciple, all the peaks soar (i.e. remain high). How- ever one of them is exceptionally good which touches the clouds (it is very high). But, he again says that it’s not a cloud but there is a sparkle of a citadel (fortress) that is circling the top of the mountain (where they will bury the grammarian). The disciple says that to that place (on the mountain), they have to go. Hence they should wind up (move forward) the heights (to the mountain top). He asks his fellows whether they are waiting for his signal to move. Next, he compares their life to that of the grammarian. According to him, their lives are low and dark while the life of grammarian was full of light (because he was a quester of knowledge). He then asks his fellows to take steps in a particular manner, broaden their chests, keep their heads high, and tell the people (of the city) that they have their master‘s corpse on their shoulders who is famous, calm, and now dead. This line is again ironic. The grammarian spent all his life locked in a room, never did anything for society, and was not known to anyone, yet the dis- ciple calls him “famous”. Part 2 Sleep, crop and herd! sleep, darkling thorpe and croft, Safe from the weather! He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft,
20 Robert Browning Selected poems Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat, Lyric Apollo! Long he lived nameless: how should spring take note Winter would follow? Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone! Cramped and diminished, Moaned he, "New measures, other feet anon! My dance is finished"? No, that's the world's way: (keep the mountain-side, Make for the city!) He knew the signal, and stepped on with pride Over men's pity; Left play for work, and grappled with the world Bent on escaping: "What's in the scroll," quoth he, "thou keepest furled Show me their shaping, Theirs who most studied man, the bard and sage, Give!" So, he gowned him, Straight got by heart that book to its last page: Learned, we found him. Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead,
21 Robert Browning Selected poems Accents uncertain: "Time to taste life," another would have said, "Up with the curtain!" This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? Patience a moment! Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text, Still there's the comment. Let me know all! Prate not of most or least, Painful or easy! Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast, Ay, nor feel queasy." Oh, such a life as he resolved to live, When he had learned it, When he had gathered all books had to give! Sooner, he spurned it. Image the whole, then execute the parts Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz, Ere mortar dab brick! From this part onwards, the disciple narrates how grammarian used to live his life and how his thoughts were different from others. The disciple says that his master whom they are going to bury in the grave in moun- tains and also singing together, was different from people who sleep and remain concerned about their crops and animals.
22 Robert Browning Selected poems The word ‘sleep’ probably refers to ignorance. Darkling Thorpe and croft refer to people and villages who are in ignorance. Weather refers to the ups and downs of life. The disciple believes that his master was free from worldly things and affairs. According to the disciple, grammarian was born with a beautiful face and throat like that of Apollo (who is the God of poetry). He lived name- less (did not live among the people). However, his spring (youth) was sacrificed and his winter (old age) followed. It happened quickly. He started suffering from cramps and became diminished (weak). He ex- pressed his suffering by saying that he needs to find new ways to keep him alive as his dance (life) is finished. He says so because of the extreme pain which he is bearing. However, it’s the world’s way (i.e. the way of ordinary people to lose hope). Saying so, he asks his fellows to keep moving the mountain- side through the city. He then resumes narrating grammarian’s life. Ac- cording to him, the grammarian knew the signal i.e. he was well aware of the fact that he will have to sacrifice his joy and still decided to devote his life to studying. He considered life useless (ironically he own life was so). He was proud of what he was doing and never gave attention to those who pitied upon him. He kept struggling against worldly problems. He would often ask what’s in the scroll (i.e. what is written in the book). As a true learner, he often remained curious about exploring the knowledge contained in the books. He would study the scholarly books of the bard (poet) and the sage (wise-men). He would go through each book carefully till the last page. However, he became bald (his hair hell), his eyes became like lead (he could not see properly) and his accent became uncertain (he could not speak properly). Note that, the disciple mistakenly reveals the worst con- dition of grammarian who made his life on earth hell-like because of his craze for excessive reading. Most people on earth believe that we should live the moment and enjoy our life. However, grammarian believed that real-life will come after death. Hence we should live this moment with patience and reading. After learning a book, if he would see a commentary (on that book), he would start reading that as well. He would often say that he desires to read
23 Robert Browning Selected poems whatever someone has written (difficult or easy). He would read every word which he may come across and still won’t feel queasy (sick or bored). Such was the life of the grammarian. After learning all the books and gath- ering all the knowledge, he used to say that life is like a building and should be planned before construction. For a building, we first its struc- ture, then the material is brought, the stone is crushed to shape, and bricks are plastered using cement. Similarly, grammarian believed that we should acquire knowledge first (before living life). Part 3 (Here's the town-gate reached: there's the market-place Gaping before us.) Yea, this in him was the peculiar grace (Hearten our chorus!) That before living he'd learn how to live No end to learning: Earn the means first God surely will contrive Use for our earning. Others mistrust and say,"But time escapes: Live now or never!" He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever." Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head: Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him.
24 Robert Browning Selected poems "Now, master, take a little rest!" not he! (Caution redoubled Step two abreast, the way winds narrowly!) Not a whit troubled, Back to his studies, fresher than at first, Fierce as a dragon He (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst) Sucked at the flagon. Oh, if we draw a circle premature, Heedless of far gain, Greedy for quick returns of profit, sure Bad is our bargain! Was it not great? did not he throw on God, (He loves the burthen) God's task to make the heavenly period Perfect the earthen? Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment. The disciple tells his fellows that they have reached the town- gate and there is the marketplace opened before them. He again asks them to keep singing. He then resumes telling about the life of the grammarian. According to him, the craze for knowledge was so much in the grammarian that he wanted to learn how to live (before living). For him, there was no end to learning. He believed that we should earn the means first (learn to live), God will definitely pay us after death. (Note that the grammarian is hopeful of getting mercy from God). Other people would say that time escapes (life is short) so the time to en- joy is now or we will never be able to do so again. However, the grammar- ian would disagree with this and say that enjoying the moment is for dogs and apes. Humans will have time to enjoy in their afterlife. Note that the poet has made the first letters of words like Now and Forever, capital (which depicts that he does not agree with the thoughts of grammarian). The disciple reveals that after spending too much time on books, he could not lift his head for long, he got stones in his kidney (Calculus involves stones for calculating), his eyes lost vision (due to prolonged staring at books), he was attacked by Tussis (cough).
25 Robert Browning Selected poems They would often ask the grammarian to take a rest but he would not agree. The disciple again asks the fellows to be careful and take steps alongside as the way becomes narrow. He resumes telling about the grammarian. According to him, the gram- marian would keep reading remain fresh all the time. His passion for ac- quiring knowledge was as fierce and strong as a dragon. His soul had a sacred unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He would try to suck every drop of knowledge from flagon (pitcher which symbolizes books here). The disciple says that if we draw a circle premature i.e. try to get quick returns of profit from life because of our greed, it will not be a good bar- gain. But, the thinking of the grammarian was great. He devoted his life to God and loved to bear the pain. The grammarian believed that God has made heaven perfect for humans living on earth. hence we should not go after joys in this life. The disciple wonders weren’t his master’s thoughts high. He would not compromise with his life‘s goal by spending in luxury and joy as the fools do on earth. Part 4 He ventured neck or nothing heaven's success Found, or earth's failure: "Wilt thou trust death or not?" He answered "Yes: Hence with life's pale lure!" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,
26 Robert Browning Selected poems Misses an unit. That, has the world here should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find him. So, with the throttling hands of death at strife, Ground he at grammar; Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife: While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business let it be! Properly based Oun Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down. The grammarian took the risk by devoting his whole life to study. He be- lieved that success in heaven depends on our striving life on earth. Often people asked him whether he trusted death or not. He would answer that he did believe in death and also in the temporary joys of life which attract humans to themselves. The disciple now compares the life of people with high thinking and low thinking. According to him, low thinking man seeks worldly things and does it immediately after seeing it. On the other hand, the man with high thinking who pursues something greater dies before achieving it (as he believes that he will get it in the afterlife). The man with low thinking keeps adding to his fortune in the world and becomes rich. On the other hand, the man with high thinking does not go after the fortune of the world and aims at something big which he believes to get in the next world. He devotes his life to God and believes that he will get the reward of his continuous studying and acquiring knowledge after death. The
27 Robert Browning Selected poems grammarian kept studying the books though he was on the verge of death and struggling to live. He struggles hard to solve the problems relating to Greek particles like ‘Hoti’ and ‘Oun’ which mean ‘because’ and ‘therefore’. He kept reading till the last moment of his life (dead from the waist down). Part 5 Well, here's the platform, here's the proper place: Hail to your purlieus, All ye highfliers of the feathered race, Swallows and curlews! Here's the top-peak; the multitude below Live, for they can, there: This man decided not to Live but Know Bury this man there? Here here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying. The disciples finally reach the top of the mountain with the corpse of the grammarian. The one narrating the story says that they have reached the
28 Robert Browning Selected poems proper place and praises it. It is a place where all the high-flying birds (swallows and curlews) visit. All the people live below. However, this man (grammarian) should be buried on the top because he decided not to live but know. Now the first letters of Live and Know are capitalized which shows that the grammarian was not living his life but destroying in the pursuit of knowledge. According to the disciple, it is the place where meteors shoot, clouds form, and lightenings are loosened, Stars come and go. In other words, it is the place for enlightened ones only. The disciple wishes that joy may come to the grammarian’s grave with the storm and morning dew may bring peace. He then concludes that lofty (high thinking people) must live in lofty places (high places). Fi- nally, he asks others to leave him to the high mountains which are higher than the thoughts of common men (who live and die in plains). A Pretty Woman By Robert Browning A Pretty Woman is a lyrical poem by Romantic Era poet Robert Browning. The poem was first published in his 1855 collection Men and Women. Since then, the poem has evoked the interests of critics and readers, not for its depth but rather the lack of it. It is believed that Browning wrote this poem after meeting a niece of his friend. According to a letter written by his wife Elizabeth Barret Browning, he felt that the girl was one of the prettiest women that he has seen in his life. But her lack of character and personality annoyed him so much that he decided to write this piece. ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?]
29 Robert Browning Selected poems (AFTER HE HAS BEEN EXTEMPORIZING UPON THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF HIS IN- VENTION) Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly,--alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed,-- Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved! Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise! 10 Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine, Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise! And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell, Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things,
30 Robert Browning Selected poems Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well, Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was, Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest, Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, 19 Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest: 20 For higher still and higher (as a runner tips with fire, When a great illumination surprises a festal night– Outlining round and round Rome’s dome from space to spire) 23 Up, the pinnacled glory reached, and the pride of my soul was in sight. In sight? Not half! for it seemed, it was certain, to match man’s birth, Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I; And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth. As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to scale the sky: Novel splendours burst forth, grew familiar and dwelt with mine. Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its wandering star; 30 Meteor-moons, balls of blaze: and they did not pale nor pine, For earth had attained to heaven, there was no more near nor far. Nay more; for there wanted not who walked, in the glare and glow, Presences plain in the place; or, fresh, from the Protoplast, Furnished for ages to come, when a kindlier wind should blow, Lured now to begin and live, in a house to their liking at last: Or else the wonderful Dead who have passed thro’ the body and gone, But were back once more to breathe in an old world worth their new: What never had been, was now; what was, as it shall be anon; And what is,–shall I say, matched both? for I was made perfect too. All thro’ my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul, All thro’ my soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth, All thro’ music and me! For think, had I painted the whole, Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so wonder-worth: Had I written the same, made verse–still, effect proceeds from cause,
31 Robert Browning Selected poems Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told; It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist-list enrolled:– ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?] But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are! 50 And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is naught; It is everywhere in the world–loud, soft, and all is said: Give it to me to use! I mix it with two in my thought, And, there! Ye have heard and seen; consider and bow the head! Well, it is gone at last, the palace of music I reared; Gone! and the good tears start, the praises that come too slow; For one is assured at first, one scarce can say that he feared, That he even gave it a thought, the gone thing was to go. 60 Never to be again! But many more of the kind As good, nay, better perchance: is this your comfort to me? To me, who must be saved because I cling with my mind To the same, same self, same love, same God: ay, what was, shall be. Therefore to whom turn I but to Thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, Thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; 70 What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
32 Robert Browning Selected poems All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard. The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by. 80 And what is our failure here but a triumph’s evidence For the fulness of the days? Have we withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; ’tis we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. 90 Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones, till I sink to the minor,–yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep: Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep. ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?] NOTE ABT VOGLER. (PAGE 126.)
33 Robert Browning Selected poems George Joseph Vogler, known also as Abbe (or Abt) Vogler (1748-1816), was a German musician. He composed operas and other musical pieces, became famous as an organist, and invented an organ with pedals and several keyboards. Browning seems to have in mind the complex musical harmonies of which the instrument was capable. See lines 10, 13, 52, 55, and 84 of the poem. See also the Ency- clopaedia Britannica. 3. =Solomon=. Legends about Solomon and his power over the spirits of earth and air are common in Jewish and Arabic literature. 9 ff. =building=. The idea of building by music is an old one. See the classical story of Amphion and the walls of Thebes, Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, and Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette, lines 272-274. 19. =rampired=. Furnished with ramparts. 23. The reference is to St. Peter’s in Rome. The musician’s imagination takes fire from his playing, and his music seems like a glorious palace which he is building. The notes are conceived as spirits doing his bidding (stanzas i-iii). As he pro- ceeds the images change, and heaven and earth seem to unite with him in his creative activity: light flashes forth, and heaven and earth draw nearer together. Now he sees the past, the beginnings of things, and the future; even the dead are back again in his presence. His imagination has anulled time and space. As he thinks of his art, it seems more glorious to him than painting and poetry: these work by laws that can be explained and followed, while music is a direct expression of the will, an act of higher creative power. When the music ends he cannot be consoled by the thought that as good music will come again. So he turns to the one unchanging thing, “the ineffable Name.” Thus he gains confidence to say, “there shall never be one lost good.” All failure and all evil are but a prelude to the good that shall in the end prevail. So he returns in hope and patience to the C major, the common chord of life. ART VOGLER is famous, not only for its confident optimism, but as an example of Browning’s power of annexing a new domain–that of music–to poetry. Georg Joseph Vogler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search
34 Robert Browning Selected poems "Abt Vogler" redirects here. For Robert Browning's poem Abt Vogler, see Dramatis Per- sonæ (poetry collection). Abbé Vogler Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler (June 15, 1749 – May 6, 1814), was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist. In a long and colorful career extending over many more nations and decades than was usual at the time, Vogler es- tablished himself as a foremost experimenter in baroque and early classic music. His greatest successes came as performer and designer for the organ at various courts and cities around Europe, as well as a teacher, attracting highly successful and devoted pu- pils such as Carl Maria von Weber. His career as a music theorist and composer how- ever was mixed, with contemporaries such as Mozart believing Vogler to have been a charlatan. Despite his mixed reception in his own life, his highly original contributions in many areas of music (particularly musicology and organ theory) and influence on his pupils endured, and combined with his eccentric and adventurous career, prompted one historian to summarize Vogler as "one of the most bizarre characters in the history of music".[1] Contents • 1Biography • 2Works • 3See also • 4References • 5External links Biography[edit] Vogler was born at Pleichach in Würzburg. His father Jared Vogler was a violin maker and instrument-maker for the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg.[2] The young Vogler studied
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Robert Browning Selected Poems.pdf

  • 1. 1 Robert Browning Selected poems features depicted in it. Contents A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning Summary ...............................................................16 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................16 Part 1 .....................................................................................................................................................17 Part 2 .....................................................................................................................................................19 Part 3 .....................................................................................................................................................23 Part 4 .....................................................................................................................................................25 Part 5 .....................................................................................................................................................27 A Pretty Woman By Robert Browning............................................................................................28 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................28 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................31 ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?].......................................................................................32 Georg Joseph Vogler................................................................................................................................33 Contents ...............................................................................................................................................34 Biography[edit]......................................................................................................................................34 A Pretty Woman Summary ..........................................................................................................38 A Pretty Woman Analysis........................................................................................................................38 Sponsor...............................................................................................................................................41 A Pretty Woman Analysis ............................................................................................................42 A Face by Robert Browning ....................................................................................................................44 Explore A Face .......................................................................................................................................45 Summary................................................................................................................................................46 Detailed Analysis...................................................................................................................................46 Lines 1-3.............................................................................................................................................46 Lines 4-10...........................................................................................................................................47 Lines 11-13 ........................................................................................................................................48 Lines 14-22 ........................................................................................................................................48 Structure and Form...............................................................................................................................49 Literary Devices.....................................................................................................................................50 Historical Context..................................................................................................................................51
  • 2. 2 Robert Browning Selected poems FAQs .......................................................................................................................................................51 A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning ........................................................................................52 Summary of A Woman’s Last Word ......................................................................................................53 Analysis of A Woman’s Last Word ........................................................................................................53 Stanza One..........................................................................................................................................53 Stanza Two.........................................................................................................................................54 Stanza Three ......................................................................................................................................55 Stanza Four ........................................................................................................................................55 Stanza Five.........................................................................................................................................56 Stanza Six ...........................................................................................................................................56 Stanza Seven ......................................................................................................................................57 Stanza Eight .......................................................................................................................................57 Stanza Nine ........................................................................................................................................58 Stanza Ten..........................................................................................................................................59 Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning ..................................................................................................59 Explore Andrea del Sarto......................................................................................................................59 Summary................................................................................................................................................60 Analysis of Andrea del Sarto................................................................................................................61 Lines 1-10 ..........................................................................................................................................61 Lines 11-20 ........................................................................................................................................62 Lines 21-28 ........................................................................................................................................63 Lines 29-40 ........................................................................................................................................64 Lines 41- 51 .......................................................................................................................................65 Lines 52-59 ........................................................................................................................................66 Lines 60-67 ........................................................................................................................................67 Lines 68-77 ........................................................................................................................................68 Lines 78-87 ........................................................................................................................................68 Lines 88-96 ........................................................................................................................................69 Lines 97-106 ......................................................................................................................................70 Lines 107-114....................................................................................................................................71 Lines 115-126....................................................................................................................................72 Lines 127-136....................................................................................................................................73
  • 3. 3 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 137-148....................................................................................................................................74 Lines 149- 161...................................................................................................................................75 Lines 162- 171...................................................................................................................................76 Lines 172-182....................................................................................................................................77 Lines 183-193....................................................................................................................................78 Lines 194- 204...................................................................................................................................79 Lines 205- 213...................................................................................................................................81 Lines 214-223....................................................................................................................................81 Lines 224-234....................................................................................................................................82 Lines 235- 243...................................................................................................................................83 Lines 244-252....................................................................................................................................84 Lines 253-267....................................................................................................................................85 About Robert Browning.......................................................................................................................87 A Toccata of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning.........................................................................................87 Explore A Toccata of Galuppi's.............................................................................................................88 Summary................................................................................................................................................88 Structure ................................................................................................................................................89 Literary Devices.....................................................................................................................................89 Analysis of A Toccata of Galuppi’s ......................................................................................................90 Tercets I – III (1-3).............................................................................................................................90 Tercets IV – VI (4-6) ..........................................................................................................................91 Tercets VII – IX (7-9) .........................................................................................................................92 Tercets X – XII (10-12) ......................................................................................................................93 Tercets XIII – XV (13-15)...................................................................................................................95 Historical Context .................................................................................................................................96 Similar Poetry ........................................................................................................................................96 Among the Rocks by Robert Browning .................................................................................................97 Explore Among the Rocks.....................................................................................................................99 Summary................................................................................................................................................99 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................100 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................100
  • 4. 4 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................100 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................101 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................102 Themes.................................................................................................................................................102 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................103 Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning ................................................................................................103 Explore Andrea del Sarto....................................................................................................................104 Summary..............................................................................................................................................104 Analysis of Andrea del Sarto..............................................................................................................105 Lines 1-10 ........................................................................................................................................105 Lines 11-20 ......................................................................................................................................106 Lines 21-28 ......................................................................................................................................107 Lines 29-40 ......................................................................................................................................108 Lines 41- 51 .....................................................................................................................................109 Lines 52-59 ......................................................................................................................................110 Lines 60-67 ......................................................................................................................................111 Lines 68-77 ......................................................................................................................................112 Lines 78-87 ......................................................................................................................................113 Lines 88-96 ......................................................................................................................................114 Lines 97-106 ....................................................................................................................................115 Lines 107-114..................................................................................................................................116 Lines 115-126..................................................................................................................................117 Lines 127-136..................................................................................................................................118 Lines 137-148..................................................................................................................................119 Lines 149- 161.................................................................................................................................120 Lines 162- 171.................................................................................................................................121 Lines 172-182..................................................................................................................................122 Lines 183-193..................................................................................................................................123 Lines 194- 204.................................................................................................................................124 Lines 205- 213.................................................................................................................................125 Lines 214-223..................................................................................................................................126
  • 5. 5 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 224-234..................................................................................................................................127 Lines 235- 243.................................................................................................................................128 Lines 244-252..................................................................................................................................129 Lines 253-267..................................................................................................................................130 Boot and Saddle by Robert Browning.......................................................................................131 Explore Boot and Saddle.....................................................................................................................132 Summary of Boot and Saddle..............................................................................................................132 Structure of Boot and Saddle ..............................................................................................................132 Poetic Techniques in Boot and Saddle ...............................................................................................133 Analysis of Boot and Saddle ................................................................................................................133 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................133 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................134 Lines 9-12.........................................................................................................................................135 Lines 13-16 ......................................................................................................................................136 nfessions by Robert Browning..............................................................................................................136 Explore Confessions............................................................................................................................139 Summary.............................................................................................................................................140 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................140 Lines 1-8...........................................................................................................................................140 Lines 9-16.........................................................................................................................................141 Lines 17-24 ......................................................................................................................................142 Lines 25-36 ......................................................................................................................................143 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................145 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................145 Theme...................................................................................................................................................146 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................146 Epilogue by Robert Browning ..............................................................................................................147 Explore Epilogue .................................................................................................................................149 Summary.............................................................................................................................................150 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................150 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................150 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................151 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................151
  • 6. 6 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................152 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................153 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................154 Theme...................................................................................................................................................155 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................155 Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning ..................................................................................................156 Explore Fra Lippo Lippi ......................................................................................................................156 Summary..............................................................................................................................................157 Analysis of Fra Lippo Lippi..................................................................................................................158 Lines 1-14.........................................................................................................................................158 Lines 15-25 ......................................................................................................................................160 Lines 26- 38 .....................................................................................................................................161 Lines 39-50 ......................................................................................................................................162 Lines 51- 61 .....................................................................................................................................163 Lines 62- 75 .....................................................................................................................................164 Lines 76- 87 .....................................................................................................................................165 Lines 88- 105 ...................................................................................................................................167 Lines 106-126..................................................................................................................................168 Lines 127- 142.................................................................................................................................170 Lines 143-164..................................................................................................................................171 Lines 165- 178.................................................................................................................................173 Lines 179-198..................................................................................................................................174 Lines 199- 215.................................................................................................................................175 Lines 216-231..................................................................................................................................176 Lines 232- 250.................................................................................................................................178 Lines 251-270..................................................................................................................................179 Lines 271- 293.................................................................................................................................181 Lines 294-310..................................................................................................................................183 Lines 311-336..................................................................................................................................184 Lines 337- 360.................................................................................................................................186 Lines 361- 376.................................................................................................................................188 Lines 347- 363.................................................................................................................................190 Summary of Fra Lippo Lippi .............................................................................................................191
  • 7. 7 Robert Browning Selected poems Analysis of Literary Devices Used in “Fra Lippo Lippi”.................................................................193 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “Fra Lippo Lippi”...................................................................193 3. O' Lyric Love ...................................................................................................................................194 Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning.........................................................................195 Home Thoughts From Abroad Analysis ............................................................................................195 Stanza One ......................................................................................................................................195 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................196 Love in a Life by Robert Browning ......................................................................................................198 Summary of Love in a Life...................................................................................................................200 Analysis of Love in a Life .....................................................................................................................200 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................200 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................201 Meeting at Night by Robert Browning ................................................................................................202 Explore Meeting at Night ....................................................................................................................203 Summary..............................................................................................................................................203 Meaning................................................................................................................................................204 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................204 Themes.................................................................................................................................................205 Analysis of Meeting at Night...............................................................................................................205 Lines 1–2..........................................................................................................................................205 Lines 3–4..........................................................................................................................................206 Lines 5–6..........................................................................................................................................206 Lines 7–8..........................................................................................................................................207 Lines 9–10........................................................................................................................................208 Lines 11–12......................................................................................................................................209 About Robert Browning......................................................................................................................210 Memorabilia by Robert Browning .......................................................................................................211 Explore Memorabilia...........................................................................................................................211 Summary of Memorabilia....................................................................................................................211 Themes in Memorabilia.......................................................................................................................212 Structure of Memorabilia....................................................................................................................212 Literary Devices in Memorabilia ........................................................................................................213 Analysis of Memorabilia......................................................................................................................213
  • 8. 8 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza One........................................................................................................................................213 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................214 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................215 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................215 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning ................................................................................................216 Explore My Last Duchess....................................................................................................................216 Summary..............................................................................................................................................217 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................217 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................218 My Last Duchess Analysis....................................................................................................................218 Section 1...........................................................................................................................................218 Section 2...........................................................................................................................................220 Section 3...........................................................................................................................................221 Section 4...........................................................................................................................................222 Section 5...........................................................................................................................................223 Explore Never the Time and the Place...............................................................................................224 Summary..............................................................................................................................................225 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................225 Never the Time and the Place Analysis...............................................................................................226 Lines 1-5...........................................................................................................................................226 Lines 6-11.........................................................................................................................................227 Lines 12-22 ......................................................................................................................................228 Now by Robert Browning......................................................................................................................229 Now Analysis........................................................................................................................................231 Parting at Morning by Robert Browning.................................................................................233 Explore Parting at Morning ................................................................................................................234 Summary of Parting at Morning.........................................................................................................234 Structure of Parting at Morning .........................................................................................................235 Literary Devices in Parting at Morning..............................................................................................235 Analysis of Parting at Morning...........................................................................................................236 Lines 1-2...........................................................................................................................................236 Lines 3-4...........................................................................................................................................236 Pippa’s Song by Robert Browning..............................................................................................237
  • 9. 9 Robert Browning Selected poems Explore Pippa's Song...........................................................................................................................237 Summary of Pippa’s Song....................................................................................................................238 Context .................................................................................................................................................238 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................238 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................239 Analysis of Pippa’s Song......................................................................................................................239 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................240 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................240 Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning ...................................................................................241 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis..................................................................................................................242 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................242 Lines 5-9...........................................................................................................................................242 Lines 10-13 ......................................................................................................................................243 Lines 14-17 ......................................................................................................................................244 Lines 18-20 ......................................................................................................................................244 Lines 21-25 ......................................................................................................................................245 Lines 26-29 ......................................................................................................................................246 Lines 30-35 ......................................................................................................................................247 Lines 36-42 ......................................................................................................................................247 Lines 43-51 ......................................................................................................................................248 Lines 52-55 ......................................................................................................................................249 Lines 56-60 ......................................................................................................................................250 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................251 Prospice by Robert Browning ......................................................................................................251 Explore Prospice..................................................................................................................................254 Summary..............................................................................................................................................254 Meaning................................................................................................................................................255 Imagery ................................................................................................................................................255 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................256 Lines 1-4...........................................................................................................................................256 Lines 5-8...........................................................................................................................................256 Lines 9-12.........................................................................................................................................257 Lines 13-16 ......................................................................................................................................257
  • 10. 10 Robert Browning Selected poems Lines 17-20 ......................................................................................................................................258 Lines 21-24 ......................................................................................................................................259 Lines 25-28 ......................................................................................................................................259 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................260 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning .....................................................260 Explore Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ....................................................................................261 Summary..............................................................................................................................................261 Themes.................................................................................................................................................262 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................262 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................263 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................263 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................264 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................264 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................265 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................266 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................267 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................268 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................269 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................270 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................270 The Bishop Orders His Tomb by Robert Browning.............................................................271 The Bishop Orders His Tomb Analysis ................................................................................................272 Lines 1-13.........................................................................................................................................272 Lines 14-30 ......................................................................................................................................274 Lines 31-44 ......................................................................................................................................275 Lines 45-56 ......................................................................................................................................276 Lines 56-67 ......................................................................................................................................278 Lines 68-75 ......................................................................................................................................279 Lines 76-84 ......................................................................................................................................279 Lines 85-93 ......................................................................................................................................280 Lines 94-118....................................................................................................................................282 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................284 The Laboratory by Robert Browning...................................................................................................285
  • 11. 11 Robert Browning Selected poems Explore Te Laboratory........................................................................................................................285 Summary..............................................................................................................................................286 Form and meter...................................................................................................................................286 Analysis The Laboratory .....................................................................................................................286 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................286 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................287 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................288 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................288 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................289 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................290 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................290 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................291 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................292 Stanza Ten........................................................................................................................................293 Stanza Eleven...................................................................................................................................293 Stanza Twelve..................................................................................................................................294 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................295 The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning.........................................................................295 Explore The Last Ride Together.........................................................................................................296 Summary of The Last Ride Together...................................................................................................296 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................297 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................297 Themes.................................................................................................................................................298 Analysis of The Last Ride Together.....................................................................................................298 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................299 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................300 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................301 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................302 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................303 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................305 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................306 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................307 Stanza Nine ......................................................................................................................................309
  • 12. 12 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza Ten........................................................................................................................................310 The Last Ride Together as a Dramatic Monologue ............................................................................311 Historical Context................................................................................................................................312 The Lost Leader by Robert Browning.......................................................................................313 Explore The Lost Leader.....................................................................................................................315 Summary..............................................................................................................................................315 Structure, Form, and Rhyme Scheme.................................................................................................316 Themes.................................................................................................................................................316 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................316 Punctuation......................................................................................................................................317 Speaker.................................................................................................................................................317 Context .................................................................................................................................................318 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................318 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................318 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................321 FAQs .....................................................................................................................................................324 The Patriot by Robert Browning.................................................................................................325 Explore The Patriot .............................................................................................................................325 Summary..............................................................................................................................................326 Themes.................................................................................................................................................326 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................326 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................327 The Patriot Analysis ............................................................................................................................327 First Stanza ......................................................................................................................................327 Second Stanza..................................................................................................................................328 Third Stanza.....................................................................................................................................329 Fourth and Fifth Stanzas.................................................................................................................329 Sixth Stanza......................................................................................................................................331 The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning ...............................................................................332 Explore The Pied Piper of Hamelin....................................................................................................332 Summary..............................................................................................................................................332 Themes.................................................................................................................................................333 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................333
  • 13. 13 Robert Browning Selected poems Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................334 Detailed Analysis.................................................................................................................................335 Part I.................................................................................................................................................335 Part II................................................................................................................................................335 Part III...............................................................................................................................................336 Part IV...............................................................................................................................................337 Part V................................................................................................................................................339 Part VI...............................................................................................................................................340 Part VII .............................................................................................................................................341 Part VIII............................................................................................................................................345 Part IX...............................................................................................................................................345 Parts X and XI...................................................................................................................................347 Part XII..............................................................................................................................................348 Part XIII ............................................................................................................................................349 Part XIV ............................................................................................................................................352 Part XV..............................................................................................................................................355 The Wanderers by Robert Browning...................................................................................................356 Explore The Wanderers......................................................................................................................356 Summary of The Wanderers................................................................................................................356 Structure ..............................................................................................................................................357 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................358 Analysis of The Wanderers..................................................................................................................358 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................358 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................362 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................364 Historical Context................................................................................................................................366 Two in Campagna by Robert Browning ...................................................................................366 Explore Two in Campagna..................................................................................................................367 Summary..............................................................................................................................................367 Themes.................................................................................................................................................368 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................368 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................369 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................370
  • 14. 14 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanza One........................................................................................................................................370 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................370 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................371 Stanza Four ......................................................................................................................................372 Stanza Five.......................................................................................................................................372 Stanza Six .........................................................................................................................................373 Stanza Seven ....................................................................................................................................373 Stanza Eight .....................................................................................................................................374 Stanzas Nine and Ten......................................................................................................................375 Stanzas Eleven and Twelve.............................................................................................................376 You’ll love me yet by Robert Browning ...............................................................................................377 Explore You'll love me yet ..................................................................................................................377 Summary..............................................................................................................................................377 Themes.................................................................................................................................................378 Structure and Form.............................................................................................................................378 Literary Devices...................................................................................................................................378 Analysis, Stanza by Stanza..................................................................................................................379 Stanza One........................................................................................................................................379 Stanza Two.......................................................................................................................................380 Stanza Three ....................................................................................................................................381 AD's English Literature ......................................................................................................................381 Analysing Deep and Profound Philosophy in Robert Browning’s "Rabi Ben Ezra" ...........381 High Hopes and Aspirations: ...............................................................................................382 Equipping the Soul:..................................................................................................................382 Trials and Tribulations:..........................................................................................................383 Spiritual Advancement:..........................................................................................................384 Making Judgment:....................................................................................................................385 Supreme Faith:...........................................................................................................................385 The Potter and the Clay: .........................................................................................................386 The Supreme Creator:.............................................................................................................387 Rabbi Ben Ezra......................................................................................................................................387 Critical Analysis of Rabbi Ben Ezra ............................................................................................................399 Stanzas I-V.................................................................................................................................................400
  • 15. 15 Robert Browning Selected poems Stanzas VI-X...............................................................................................................................................400 Stanzas XI-XV.............................................................................................................................................401 Stanzas XVI-XX...........................................................................................................................................401 Stanzas XXI- XXV........................................................................................................................................402 Stanzas XXVI-XXXII ....................................................................................................................................402 To sum up..................................................................................................................................................402 Style and allegory......................................................................................................................................404 The lost mistress .......................................................................................................................................404 Summary of The Lost Mistress .............................................................................................................405 Explanation With Reference to Context .........................................................................................406 Questions-Answer (Short Type) ...................................................................................................409 Essay Type Question......................................................................................................................411 The Lost Mistress...................................................................................................................................412 The Lost Mistress...............................................................................................................................412 Summary of The Lost Mistress ........................................................................................................413 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “The Lost Mistress”..............................................................414 Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “The Lost Mistress”..............................................................415 Robert Browning 'Youth and Art' Analysis..........................................................................................415
  • 16. 16 Robert Browning Selected poems A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning Summary You're here: Home » English Poems With Summary Table of Contents • Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Further Reading Introduction A Grammarian’s Funeral is quite an interesting poem of Renaissance time. In this poem, a grammarian (quester of knowledge) has died prem- aturely as he spent all his life reading the books and commentaries. He gave up all the joys and dedicated his life to read and learn. Now his stu- dents are taking his corpse to the mountains as they believe that he de- serves a high place to rest. One of his students (or disciples) is narrating the eulogy while the corpse is being taken to the mountains. He narrates how the grammarian spent his life while others listen to him. Hence it is a dramatic monologue. But, this poem is ironic. The students are praising their master for his quest for knowledge, but ironically the poet is revealing how the gram- marian wasted his life by avoiding the world, its beauty, art, and pleasure (which is a gift from God). Instead of enjoying life, the grammarian locked himself in the room to read the books. In addition, there is absolutely no contribution of grammarian towards the society. He spends his life in the room and remains lost in the books. He never does anything for society, nor gains from his life. He loses his youth (the best time of life), his eyesight, beauty and dies prematurely. He considers the joys of life useless and instead hopes for joy in the afterlife (which is ironic). He forgets that this life is a gift from God and is meant to be en- joyed.
  • 17. 17 Robert Browning Selected poems The poem A Grammarian’s Funeral is quite long and was published in ‘The Men and Women’ in 1855. It has 148 lines and a definite rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefef which also depicts the marching of disciples. Let us try to understand what disciple has to say and how Browning re- veals Grammarian’s wrong way of living life. Part 1 Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes Each in its tether Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain, Cared-for till cock-crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row! That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture! All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels;
  • 18. 18 Robert Browning Selected poems Clouds overcome it; No! yonder sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit. Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our master, famous, calm and dead, Borne on our shoulders. The disciple says, “Let us begin and carry up this corpse”. So the poem begins with carrying the corpse of the grammarian to the grave. The dis- ciple suggests singing together for the grammarian. They now leave the common crofts and the vulgar thorpes (i.e. villages and fields of common people) which are tethered (small, as compared to the knowledge and thoughts of grammarian), The people of villages remain sleeping safe (do not care about knowledge and philosophy) on the bosom (top) of the plain (village) and remain concerned about cock-crow i.e. worldly matters (like animals and plants). The disciple then asks his fellows (who are carrying the corpse) to look far away at the rock-row (high land or mountains) where the day (probably refers to life) does not rim (limits the thoughts). In other words, moun- tains are ideal places as are high like the thoughts of the grammarian. According to the disciple, it is the appropriate country (best place). There, a man’s thoughts are rare, intense, and remain self-gath- ered (united) for an outbreak as they chafe the censer i.e. they go against the restraints and limited knowledge. In other words, mountains are high and are free unlike plains (which are surrounded by things).
  • 19. 19 Robert Browning Selected poems The disciple says that they will leave the unlettered (unedu- cated) plain (villages) and its herd and crop (i.e. animals and plants) and seek the sepulture (do the burial of grammarian) on a tall moun- tain which is citied to the top (i.e. remains high and symbolizes learning) and crowded with culture. The word culture seems to be ironic because nobody lives there. It proba- bly refers to learning and high morals (symbolized by the tall mountain). But ironically, it refers to something which has no value for humanity. It is like the grammarian’s own life which he spent in a room without contrib- uting to society. According to the disciple, all the peaks soar (i.e. remain high). How- ever one of them is exceptionally good which touches the clouds (it is very high). But, he again says that it’s not a cloud but there is a sparkle of a citadel (fortress) that is circling the top of the mountain (where they will bury the grammarian). The disciple says that to that place (on the mountain), they have to go. Hence they should wind up (move forward) the heights (to the mountain top). He asks his fellows whether they are waiting for his signal to move. Next, he compares their life to that of the grammarian. According to him, their lives are low and dark while the life of grammarian was full of light (because he was a quester of knowledge). He then asks his fellows to take steps in a particular manner, broaden their chests, keep their heads high, and tell the people (of the city) that they have their master‘s corpse on their shoulders who is famous, calm, and now dead. This line is again ironic. The grammarian spent all his life locked in a room, never did anything for society, and was not known to anyone, yet the dis- ciple calls him “famous”. Part 2 Sleep, crop and herd! sleep, darkling thorpe and croft, Safe from the weather! He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft,
  • 20. 20 Robert Browning Selected poems Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat, Lyric Apollo! Long he lived nameless: how should spring take note Winter would follow? Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone! Cramped and diminished, Moaned he, "New measures, other feet anon! My dance is finished"? No, that's the world's way: (keep the mountain-side, Make for the city!) He knew the signal, and stepped on with pride Over men's pity; Left play for work, and grappled with the world Bent on escaping: "What's in the scroll," quoth he, "thou keepest furled Show me their shaping, Theirs who most studied man, the bard and sage, Give!" So, he gowned him, Straight got by heart that book to its last page: Learned, we found him. Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead,
  • 21. 21 Robert Browning Selected poems Accents uncertain: "Time to taste life," another would have said, "Up with the curtain!" This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? Patience a moment! Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text, Still there's the comment. Let me know all! Prate not of most or least, Painful or easy! Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast, Ay, nor feel queasy." Oh, such a life as he resolved to live, When he had learned it, When he had gathered all books had to give! Sooner, he spurned it. Image the whole, then execute the parts Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz, Ere mortar dab brick! From this part onwards, the disciple narrates how grammarian used to live his life and how his thoughts were different from others. The disciple says that his master whom they are going to bury in the grave in moun- tains and also singing together, was different from people who sleep and remain concerned about their crops and animals.
  • 22. 22 Robert Browning Selected poems The word ‘sleep’ probably refers to ignorance. Darkling Thorpe and croft refer to people and villages who are in ignorance. Weather refers to the ups and downs of life. The disciple believes that his master was free from worldly things and affairs. According to the disciple, grammarian was born with a beautiful face and throat like that of Apollo (who is the God of poetry). He lived name- less (did not live among the people). However, his spring (youth) was sacrificed and his winter (old age) followed. It happened quickly. He started suffering from cramps and became diminished (weak). He ex- pressed his suffering by saying that he needs to find new ways to keep him alive as his dance (life) is finished. He says so because of the extreme pain which he is bearing. However, it’s the world’s way (i.e. the way of ordinary people to lose hope). Saying so, he asks his fellows to keep moving the mountain- side through the city. He then resumes narrating grammarian’s life. Ac- cording to him, the grammarian knew the signal i.e. he was well aware of the fact that he will have to sacrifice his joy and still decided to devote his life to studying. He considered life useless (ironically he own life was so). He was proud of what he was doing and never gave attention to those who pitied upon him. He kept struggling against worldly problems. He would often ask what’s in the scroll (i.e. what is written in the book). As a true learner, he often remained curious about exploring the knowledge contained in the books. He would study the scholarly books of the bard (poet) and the sage (wise-men). He would go through each book carefully till the last page. However, he became bald (his hair hell), his eyes became like lead (he could not see properly) and his accent became uncertain (he could not speak properly). Note that, the disciple mistakenly reveals the worst con- dition of grammarian who made his life on earth hell-like because of his craze for excessive reading. Most people on earth believe that we should live the moment and enjoy our life. However, grammarian believed that real-life will come after death. Hence we should live this moment with patience and reading. After learning a book, if he would see a commentary (on that book), he would start reading that as well. He would often say that he desires to read
  • 23. 23 Robert Browning Selected poems whatever someone has written (difficult or easy). He would read every word which he may come across and still won’t feel queasy (sick or bored). Such was the life of the grammarian. After learning all the books and gath- ering all the knowledge, he used to say that life is like a building and should be planned before construction. For a building, we first its struc- ture, then the material is brought, the stone is crushed to shape, and bricks are plastered using cement. Similarly, grammarian believed that we should acquire knowledge first (before living life). Part 3 (Here's the town-gate reached: there's the market-place Gaping before us.) Yea, this in him was the peculiar grace (Hearten our chorus!) That before living he'd learn how to live No end to learning: Earn the means first God surely will contrive Use for our earning. Others mistrust and say,"But time escapes: Live now or never!" He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever." Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head: Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him.
  • 24. 24 Robert Browning Selected poems "Now, master, take a little rest!" not he! (Caution redoubled Step two abreast, the way winds narrowly!) Not a whit troubled, Back to his studies, fresher than at first, Fierce as a dragon He (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst) Sucked at the flagon. Oh, if we draw a circle premature, Heedless of far gain, Greedy for quick returns of profit, sure Bad is our bargain! Was it not great? did not he throw on God, (He loves the burthen) God's task to make the heavenly period Perfect the earthen? Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment. The disciple tells his fellows that they have reached the town- gate and there is the marketplace opened before them. He again asks them to keep singing. He then resumes telling about the life of the grammarian. According to him, the craze for knowledge was so much in the grammarian that he wanted to learn how to live (before living). For him, there was no end to learning. He believed that we should earn the means first (learn to live), God will definitely pay us after death. (Note that the grammarian is hopeful of getting mercy from God). Other people would say that time escapes (life is short) so the time to en- joy is now or we will never be able to do so again. However, the grammar- ian would disagree with this and say that enjoying the moment is for dogs and apes. Humans will have time to enjoy in their afterlife. Note that the poet has made the first letters of words like Now and Forever, capital (which depicts that he does not agree with the thoughts of grammarian). The disciple reveals that after spending too much time on books, he could not lift his head for long, he got stones in his kidney (Calculus involves stones for calculating), his eyes lost vision (due to prolonged staring at books), he was attacked by Tussis (cough).
  • 25. 25 Robert Browning Selected poems They would often ask the grammarian to take a rest but he would not agree. The disciple again asks the fellows to be careful and take steps alongside as the way becomes narrow. He resumes telling about the grammarian. According to him, the gram- marian would keep reading remain fresh all the time. His passion for ac- quiring knowledge was as fierce and strong as a dragon. His soul had a sacred unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He would try to suck every drop of knowledge from flagon (pitcher which symbolizes books here). The disciple says that if we draw a circle premature i.e. try to get quick returns of profit from life because of our greed, it will not be a good bar- gain. But, the thinking of the grammarian was great. He devoted his life to God and loved to bear the pain. The grammarian believed that God has made heaven perfect for humans living on earth. hence we should not go after joys in this life. The disciple wonders weren’t his master’s thoughts high. He would not compromise with his life‘s goal by spending in luxury and joy as the fools do on earth. Part 4 He ventured neck or nothing heaven's success Found, or earth's failure: "Wilt thou trust death or not?" He answered "Yes: Hence with life's pale lure!" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,
  • 26. 26 Robert Browning Selected poems Misses an unit. That, has the world here should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find him. So, with the throttling hands of death at strife, Ground he at grammar; Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife: While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business let it be! Properly based Oun Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down. The grammarian took the risk by devoting his whole life to study. He be- lieved that success in heaven depends on our striving life on earth. Often people asked him whether he trusted death or not. He would answer that he did believe in death and also in the temporary joys of life which attract humans to themselves. The disciple now compares the life of people with high thinking and low thinking. According to him, low thinking man seeks worldly things and does it immediately after seeing it. On the other hand, the man with high thinking who pursues something greater dies before achieving it (as he believes that he will get it in the afterlife). The man with low thinking keeps adding to his fortune in the world and becomes rich. On the other hand, the man with high thinking does not go after the fortune of the world and aims at something big which he believes to get in the next world. He devotes his life to God and believes that he will get the reward of his continuous studying and acquiring knowledge after death. The
  • 27. 27 Robert Browning Selected poems grammarian kept studying the books though he was on the verge of death and struggling to live. He struggles hard to solve the problems relating to Greek particles like ‘Hoti’ and ‘Oun’ which mean ‘because’ and ‘therefore’. He kept reading till the last moment of his life (dead from the waist down). Part 5 Well, here's the platform, here's the proper place: Hail to your purlieus, All ye highfliers of the feathered race, Swallows and curlews! Here's the top-peak; the multitude below Live, for they can, there: This man decided not to Live but Know Bury this man there? Here here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying. The disciples finally reach the top of the mountain with the corpse of the grammarian. The one narrating the story says that they have reached the
  • 28. 28 Robert Browning Selected poems proper place and praises it. It is a place where all the high-flying birds (swallows and curlews) visit. All the people live below. However, this man (grammarian) should be buried on the top because he decided not to live but know. Now the first letters of Live and Know are capitalized which shows that the grammarian was not living his life but destroying in the pursuit of knowledge. According to the disciple, it is the place where meteors shoot, clouds form, and lightenings are loosened, Stars come and go. In other words, it is the place for enlightened ones only. The disciple wishes that joy may come to the grammarian’s grave with the storm and morning dew may bring peace. He then concludes that lofty (high thinking people) must live in lofty places (high places). Fi- nally, he asks others to leave him to the high mountains which are higher than the thoughts of common men (who live and die in plains). A Pretty Woman By Robert Browning A Pretty Woman is a lyrical poem by Romantic Era poet Robert Browning. The poem was first published in his 1855 collection Men and Women. Since then, the poem has evoked the interests of critics and readers, not for its depth but rather the lack of it. It is believed that Browning wrote this poem after meeting a niece of his friend. According to a letter written by his wife Elizabeth Barret Browning, he felt that the girl was one of the prettiest women that he has seen in his life. But her lack of character and personality annoyed him so much that he decided to write this piece. ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?]
  • 29. 29 Robert Browning Selected poems (AFTER HE HAS BEEN EXTEMPORIZING UPON THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF HIS IN- VENTION) Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly,--alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed,-- Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved! Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise! 10 Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine, Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise! And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell, Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things,
  • 30. 30 Robert Browning Selected poems Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well, Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was, Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest, Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, 19 Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest: 20 For higher still and higher (as a runner tips with fire, When a great illumination surprises a festal night– Outlining round and round Rome’s dome from space to spire) 23 Up, the pinnacled glory reached, and the pride of my soul was in sight. In sight? Not half! for it seemed, it was certain, to match man’s birth, Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I; And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth. As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to scale the sky: Novel splendours burst forth, grew familiar and dwelt with mine. Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its wandering star; 30 Meteor-moons, balls of blaze: and they did not pale nor pine, For earth had attained to heaven, there was no more near nor far. Nay more; for there wanted not who walked, in the glare and glow, Presences plain in the place; or, fresh, from the Protoplast, Furnished for ages to come, when a kindlier wind should blow, Lured now to begin and live, in a house to their liking at last: Or else the wonderful Dead who have passed thro’ the body and gone, But were back once more to breathe in an old world worth their new: What never had been, was now; what was, as it shall be anon; And what is,–shall I say, matched both? for I was made perfect too. All thro’ my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul, All thro’ my soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth, All thro’ music and me! For think, had I painted the whole, Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so wonder-worth: Had I written the same, made verse–still, effect proceeds from cause,
  • 31. 31 Robert Browning Selected poems Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told; It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist-list enrolled:– ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?] But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are! 50 And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is naught; It is everywhere in the world–loud, soft, and all is said: Give it to me to use! I mix it with two in my thought, And, there! Ye have heard and seen; consider and bow the head! Well, it is gone at last, the palace of music I reared; Gone! and the good tears start, the praises that come too slow; For one is assured at first, one scarce can say that he feared, That he even gave it a thought, the gone thing was to go. 60 Never to be again! But many more of the kind As good, nay, better perchance: is this your comfort to me? To me, who must be saved because I cling with my mind To the same, same self, same love, same God: ay, what was, shall be. Therefore to whom turn I but to Thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, Thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; 70 What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
  • 32. 32 Robert Browning Selected poems All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard. The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by. 80 And what is our failure here but a triumph’s evidence For the fulness of the days? Have we withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; ’tis we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. 90 Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones, till I sink to the minor,–yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep: Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep. ABT VOGLER BY ROBERT BROWNING [?] NOTE ABT VOGLER. (PAGE 126.)
  • 33. 33 Robert Browning Selected poems George Joseph Vogler, known also as Abbe (or Abt) Vogler (1748-1816), was a German musician. He composed operas and other musical pieces, became famous as an organist, and invented an organ with pedals and several keyboards. Browning seems to have in mind the complex musical harmonies of which the instrument was capable. See lines 10, 13, 52, 55, and 84 of the poem. See also the Ency- clopaedia Britannica. 3. =Solomon=. Legends about Solomon and his power over the spirits of earth and air are common in Jewish and Arabic literature. 9 ff. =building=. The idea of building by music is an old one. See the classical story of Amphion and the walls of Thebes, Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, and Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette, lines 272-274. 19. =rampired=. Furnished with ramparts. 23. The reference is to St. Peter’s in Rome. The musician’s imagination takes fire from his playing, and his music seems like a glorious palace which he is building. The notes are conceived as spirits doing his bidding (stanzas i-iii). As he pro- ceeds the images change, and heaven and earth seem to unite with him in his creative activity: light flashes forth, and heaven and earth draw nearer together. Now he sees the past, the beginnings of things, and the future; even the dead are back again in his presence. His imagination has anulled time and space. As he thinks of his art, it seems more glorious to him than painting and poetry: these work by laws that can be explained and followed, while music is a direct expression of the will, an act of higher creative power. When the music ends he cannot be consoled by the thought that as good music will come again. So he turns to the one unchanging thing, “the ineffable Name.” Thus he gains confidence to say, “there shall never be one lost good.” All failure and all evil are but a prelude to the good that shall in the end prevail. So he returns in hope and patience to the C major, the common chord of life. ART VOGLER is famous, not only for its confident optimism, but as an example of Browning’s power of annexing a new domain–that of music–to poetry. Georg Joseph Vogler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search
  • 34. 34 Robert Browning Selected poems "Abt Vogler" redirects here. For Robert Browning's poem Abt Vogler, see Dramatis Per- sonæ (poetry collection). Abbé Vogler Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler (June 15, 1749 – May 6, 1814), was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist. In a long and colorful career extending over many more nations and decades than was usual at the time, Vogler es- tablished himself as a foremost experimenter in baroque and early classic music. His greatest successes came as performer and designer for the organ at various courts and cities around Europe, as well as a teacher, attracting highly successful and devoted pu- pils such as Carl Maria von Weber. His career as a music theorist and composer how- ever was mixed, with contemporaries such as Mozart believing Vogler to have been a charlatan. Despite his mixed reception in his own life, his highly original contributions in many areas of music (particularly musicology and organ theory) and influence on his pupils endured, and combined with his eccentric and adventurous career, prompted one historian to summarize Vogler as "one of the most bizarre characters in the history of music".[1] Contents • 1Biography • 2Works • 3See also • 4References • 5External links Biography[edit] Vogler was born at Pleichach in Würzburg. His father Jared Vogler was a violin maker and instrument-maker for the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg.[2] The young Vogler studied