Meeting at Night Robert Browning The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each! Imagery: Sight : “grey sea”, “long black land”, “yellow half-moon large”, “startled little waves”, “fiery ringlets”, etc. (almost all the parts of this poem give sight imagery).
* Hear : “voice less loud” * Touch : “warm sea-scented beach” Surface meaning: The Robert Browning’s poem, as the title shows it, is about a meeting at night of a couple who are in love with each other. To meet the woman, the man should do a very long journey through the sea with his boat, walking through three farms, until he arrives at a farm. Still, he has to be very careful when meeting her because exactly they are not allowed to meet each other.
That’s why the man comes at night and they should talk with a very soft voice. Deep meaning: This poem is telling us about the process of a relationship. When someone could not find his love, he would feel so lonely in life. Robert Browning represented it with the phrase “the grey sea and the long black land”. Love can be aimed to someone or dream. Then, to be able to reach his love, he passed trough many challenges and restrictions. However, he did it happily since he has a big optimistic. After all the hassles, he succeed to find what he’s been looking for.
The Essay on Acquainted With The Night Robert Frost A Commentary
Through stylistic devices, poets are often able to add layers of meaning to short and seemingly cryptic stanzas. It is a poet s responsibility to know how he wants to affect the reader and which stylistic devices he must use to achieve his goal. Acclaimed New England poet Robert Frost wrote hundreds of poems in his lifetime. His poem Acquainted with the Night focuses on Frost s depression and ...
The loneliness then is gone and turned into brightness (“And blue spurt of a lighted match”).
Finally, he got what he had been dreaming about. Theme: * Love is something that needs a hassle and sacrificial to be gotten. * A success will be reached if someone has a big motivation and works hard pass trough many challenges and restrictions. Messages: To reach our love/dream, we have to work hard and enjoy the process. By doing it, we will find the real happiness of our success. 2. “Meeting At Night” Summary The speaker is at sea at night, heading towards the black land in the distance.
He briefly paints a picturesque image of night at sea but moves forward until he pulls his vessel up on to the sand. He walks a mile of beach and then three fields, until he approaches his goal, a farm. He taps at the window, sees the lighting of a match, and then cannot even hear the voices over the beating of his and his lover’s hearts as they reunite. Analysis A short and relatively (for Browning) simple love poem, this piece still presents a subtextual comment on the importance of movement in life, and on the dichotomy between the stasis of art and the action of life.
The entire poem has a sense of movement to it that reflects the speaker’s desire to reunite with his love. The poem’s meter and sound clearly denote a sense of pressing intent. Read it aloud to sense how the language is pushing ever forward, with three lines in the first stanza alone beginning with “And,” as though to suggest that what is on the speaker’s mind is never the moment he is in but rather the next thing, since the latter gets him closer to his lover. Technically, the meter is iambic tetrameter, though t is hardly strict to that meter’s requirements, as should be expected for a poem about movement over order and contemplation. And this sense of movement is particularly interesting when juxtaposed with what is usually expected of a poem of this sort. The imagery, especially in the first stanza, is extremely picturesque and pastoral, the type of landscape that readers often expect poets to spend time contemplating and describing. Poetry, after all, is about capturing the complexities and beauty of particular moments, of diving deeply into one image to discover all of its profundity.
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Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet - the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost - born in 1894. He was immensely popular, especially among younger readers for his work; he experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax. The majority of his poems turn to the subjects of love, war, and sex, with such simplistic language, abandoning ...
This poet, however, is uninterested in the magnificence of “the yellow half-moon large and low. ” Instead, his focus is on bypassing such elements to as to get to the beach so he can get to the fields so he can get to farm. The message here from Browning (who as usual makes no attempt to place himself directly into the work) seems to be that he chooses life rather than art, that for him the goal is movement and energy rather than static contemplation. At least, that seems to be the message until he arrives to his love, at which point the poem abruptly ends.
The fact that attainment itself does not pose cause for a third stanza, however, can leave us to think one of two things: either we can believe that the next action would be further movement of this sort, or we can believe that once he has attained his happiness, he has no further need for writing. He has achieved the unspeakable beauty of love, but as we see in the poem, he as speaker is not interested in plumbing the depths of beauty. Therefore, once he achieves such beauty and happiness for himself, he needs not write but rather can simply live. It’s worth noting the implications of secrecy in the poem.
First, the journey and reunion happens at night, which suggests a veil of transgression that in the Victorian age would likely be linked to sexuality. Perhaps there is autobiographical impetus in exploring the theme from this angle, considering that Browning had only recently wed Elizabeth Barrett Browning after a courtship that they had to keep secret from her oppressive father. Many scholars see in it a representation of this courtship, though Browning’s general eschewal of autobiography in his poetry makes it hard to imagine he would pursue that so explicitly. Regardless, the sexuality does add a certain sense of danger to the poem.
Not only is sexuality implied in the clandestine meeting, but the image of the boat charging into the beach, where it can “quench its speed I’ the slushy sand” is easy to interpret along these lines. Overall, the poem is hardly subtle in its themes, but at 12 lines, one need not expect it to be. The speed with which it can be read is but the final means it uses to propose the idea that for he who loves, there is no cause for stopping to admire what beauty surrounds us, at least not until the supreme beauty of our beloved can be realized Meeting at Night vs Parting at Morning
The Essay on The relationship between men and women in Browning’s poems
Browning presents the relationship between men and women in the two poems in a number of ways. Such as mans power over women, women as possessions/belongings/treated like children, women in their traditional role, the death of the women, men as inhuman/ uncaring and how the male character feels about the death of his wife/lover. All of these points are shown and used by Robert Browning in the two ...
These two poems by Robert Browning are related each other. At the poem “Meeting at Night”, it tells about the couple who are love each other meeting at the night. At first, the man feels lonely because he has not find his love that Browning represented it by “The grey sea and the long black land”. Then, to meet the woman to reach his love, he passed through many challenges and obstacles. He should do a very long journey through the sea with his boat represented by “Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach”, walking through three farms until he arrives at a farm that represented by “Three fields to cross till a farm appears”.
However, he did it happily since he has a big optimistic. Because they are not allowed to meet each other, he has to be very careful when meeting the woman. That’s why the man comes at night that Browning represented it in the first and second line “The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low”. It tells that the time is in late twilight or early evening, when the sea and the land are still distinguishable from each other, and when the moon is low. After all his hassles, he succeeds to find what he looked for.
The loneliness has gone and changed by brightness which represented by “And blue spurt of lighted match”. And finally he got what he dreamed about. And in the next poem “ Parting at Morning” is tell about how a man thought he was in love with a woman before, but in the morning after he finally gets what he wanted, he realized that he just wants to get back to the “World of men”. He leaves the woman who is probably still in love with him and goes back to his original life like nothing ever happened. “Round the cape of a sudden came the sea” represents the man’s realization that he really isn’t love the woman. t came “suddenly” because he didn’t expected it before. In the middle two lines tells how the man defending his decision to leave the woman, but in the end he goes back to his own life without even thinking about the woman feel. I think, the story in poem Meeting at night is continues in poem Parting at Morning. At first he do all what he can to meet his love, but after he gets what he want he realized that actually he doesn’t really love the woman. So he left the woman after the night they have a time together. The poem actually tells about human emotion about love.
The Essay on What Do Women Want From Men
Where did all those romantic fellas go? With all that can be, all that is within us, romance lives forever! So why not take advantage of it. Did you ever look around and wonder why a woman will chose another man over you? Maybe you are more handsome, intelligent, richer and so much more than that other plain fellow what's his name. But he's romantic and obviously knows how to treat a woman and ...
