Assignment: “Meeting At Night” is a love poem and it explores the relationship between lovers.
Show how the poem treats the subject and how successful the author is in dealing with the subject.
Purpose: R
“Meeting At Night” is a love poem where the author Robert Browning conveys what it is like to be in love and is most certainly successful at this. In this essay I will analyse why I think the author succeeds in dealing with the topic of love.
The poem charts a lover journey across sea and land to see his partner; furthermore the journey is made at night, indicating to the reader that the lovers may not be allowed to meet. In the first stanza of the poem the author described the sea journey. I believe the poet is successfully creates the idea of the man struggling to see his lover which helps him to become successful in dealing with the topic. The hardship of the relationship can be seen in this quote
“The grey sea and the long black land”
In this quote an air of difficulty and hardship is created by the use of the adjectives “grey” and “black” and it becomes more romantic when the reader is made aware that he struggling and going through difficulty to reach his lover.
Throughout the whole poem the author uses atmosphere and setting to create a romantic air. One technique the poet uses to create such an air is contrasting certain elements. The reader can see this clearly when he contrasts the temperature of the difficult journey in the first stanza with the warmer easier much more ideal journey of the second.
The Essay on Analysis of the Poem “Variations on the Word Love”
The writer of the poem Margaret Atwood was born in November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is not only a poet, but also a novelist, a literary critic, an essayist and an environmental activist. And she is an excellent writer, a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature. Her genres of writing include historical fiction, speculative fiction, science ...
“Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach”
In this particular quote the author successfully contrasts warm with cold, creating a much easier and romantic air because the reader is given the impression as he nears the end of his journey things begin to become much easier as opposed the trials of the difficult first stanza.
In “Meeting At Night” the moods and feelings conjured by the author is both stanzas are very different. The second stanza of this poem hints to the reader, through rhyme pattern, that the lover is nervous anxious and tense. This can be seen in the following lines.
“And the blue spurt of a lighted match” Also “A tap at the pane, the quick scratch”
A tense and uneasy mood is created by the poet using rhyme to highlight certain words, for example “scratch” is paired with “match”. Scratch gives the impression that even in the dead of night it is silent enough to hear a tiny scratch at a window and given the clandestine nature of this affair this adds to the tense moment because the lover are in fear that even this tiny sound may give their meeting away.
The author successfully reveals the relationship between the two lovers using a number of techniques, I will analyze how he does this with rhyme. In the second stanza it is revealed they are deeply in love because of the line.
“Than two hearts beating each to each!”
This quote makes the reader aware that the two lovers are very much in sync with each other because their heart beats at the same time as they embrace. This particular line is rhymed with
“Then a mile of warm sea scented beach”
Working backwards we can see that because the two lines are paired through rhyme and reading them out on their own stressed the fact that as he walks down the long romantic beach he is thinking about seeing her. This is also the case in the first stanza, the poet uses rhyme to reveal the romantic relationship. The man is hurrying through a difficult journey to see his lover. This is revealed in through metaphor and rhyme in these lines.
The Research paper on Internet Infidelity Relationship Line Relationships
Abstract There is a new place for exploration in regards to relationships; traditionally we meet people on the street, at bars or by other friends. However, since the vast expansion of Internet users, there have risen new ways of interacting and communicating with others. There are places on line that are specifically made to meet people in different context and environments. Some of these areas ...
“And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,”
Here. Through the use of metaphor and rhyme, the poet conjures an image of a man rushing so quickly and travelling so fast to reach her he surprises the waves, and wakes them from their sleep.
As mentioned before the two lovers share a very romantic relationship, the very fact this meeting is at night is held at night, and they meet quietly is an indication to the reader that their love is forbidden, this makes it all the more romantic.
“The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;”
This is a very successful way of conveying the romantic nature of the relationship because the reader knows that the man is travelling at night, because of the “half moon”.
So in conclusion I believe that the poet Robert Browning is extremely successful in dealing with the topic of love because of the way he creates a romantic air in
“Meeting At Night” through setting, the lovers actions rhyme, rhythm and word choice and I also feel that this poem conveys a difficult but rewarding and deep relationship between these two lovers
