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Short Analysis of Robert Browning

The poem describes a man taking a journey by boat and on foot at night to meet his love. He braves the sea and crosses three fields to reach a farm, where he taps quietly at the window and lights a match to see his love. The summary analyzes how the poem depicts the challenges of pursuing love and achieving success through perseverance despite restrictions. Browning uses imagery of sight, sound, and touch to convey the man's journey and meeting with his beloved in secret under the light of the half-moon.

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Short Analysis of Robert Browning

The poem describes a man taking a journey by boat and on foot at night to meet his love. He braves the sea and crosses three fields to reach a farm, where he taps quietly at the window and lights a match to see his love. The summary analyzes how the poem depicts the challenges of pursuing love and achieving success through perseverance despite restrictions. Browning uses imagery of sight, sound, and touch to convey the man's journey and meeting with his beloved in secret under the light of the half-moon.

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Short Analysis of Robert Browning’s Meeting at Night

Meeting at Night

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 fields, 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 loneliness then is gone and turned into brightness (“And
blue spurt of a lighted match”). Finally, he got what he had been dreaming about.

Themes:

 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.
What is Imagery?
Imagery, in a literary text, is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It
appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work. Powerful forms of imagery
engage all of the senses.

Imagery is the use of visual or other types of images in poetry. The use of all kinds of concrete, metaphoric and
more abstract is called imagery. Images are usually visual, but they can have all the dimensions like: visual
(seeing), auditory (hearing), tactile (touch), gustatory (taste), olfactory (smelling), kinetic (movement) and even
conceptual (abstract).

There are seven major types of imagery, each corresponding to a sense, feeling, action, or reaction:

 Visual imagery pertains to graphics, visual scenes, pictures, or the sense of sight.

 Auditory imagery pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. (This kind of imagery
may come in the form of onomatopoeia).

 Olfactory imagery pertains to odors, scents, or the sense of smell.

 Gustatory imagery pertains to flavors or the sense of taste.

 Tactile imagery pertains to physical textures or the sense of touch.

Less used

 Kinesthetic imagery pertains to movements.

 Organic imagery / subjective imagery, pertains to personal experiences of a character's body,


including emotion and the senses of hunger, thirst, fatigue, and pain.[

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