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Comment 2 of 2, added on May 21st, 2006 at 5:57 AM.
This is a poem about lovers who are also friends. The poem is concise even to the extent of creating obscurity of expression e.g. when talking about the Emperor in the times(which refers to Napoleon). Although this poem seems to be an apology, there is a lack of an actualy apology; the word "sorry" is not used.
Lucy
Comment 1 of 2, added on May 26th, 2005 at 8:21 AM.
This poem is centred around two of Browning's favoured hunting grounds, dramatic monologue and love. Unlike his later monologues, he does not aim to capture the earthly qualities of colloquial speech through writing in iambic pentameter and free verse, here he aims to achieve, as he talks about in "two in the Campagna", loves elevating nature, through constructing beautiful and poetic rhyme scheme. The poem, relates to Porphyrias lover in the final stanza, talking of a young woman knocking upon her lovers door during the dead of a stormy night, and this could be considered as the preceding to that poem, as the ominous final line of the stanza foreshadows the dark events in Porphyrias lover, the love that lasts "evermore".
Yehuda Dexter from Botswana
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This is a poem about lovers who are also friends. The poem is concise even to the extent of creating obscurity of expression e.g. when talking about the Emperor in the times(which refers to Napoleon). Although this poem seems to be an apology, there is a lack of an actualy apology; the word "sorry" is not used.
Lucy