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Meeting at Night' and Parting at Morning' by Robert Browning
Meeting at Night' and Parting at Morning' by Robert Browning
First impressions
1. Who is speaking?
2. Where is the speaker?
3. What is he speaking about?
4. What atmosphere does the speaker create?
‘Meeting at Night’
‘Parting at Morning’
1. Browning himself said that ‘Parting at Morning’ is a ‘confession of how fleeting is the
belief’ implied in ‘Meeting at Night’ ‘that such raptures are self-sufficient and enduring’.
What do you think he meant?
2. What is the effect of the alliteration in lines 1 and 2?
3. Why is the sun personified in line 2 and why is it referred to by the masculine pronoun
‘him’ in line 3? What does this suggest about male power and the dominance of nature?
4. What metaphor is used to describe the sun’s rays and what does it suggest is drawing the
speaker away from his lover?
5. What ultimately does the speaker need more than love?