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Robert Browning

Robert Browning was born on the 7th May 1812 in Camberwell,London.He was a English poet and playwright,who mastered the art of dramatic verse and was well know for his dramatic monologues.

At the age of just 12 he wrote a volume of Byronic verse entitled Incondita, his parents attempted to publish it but it was unsuccessful. In 1828,Browning enrolled at the University of London,but he soon left,anxious to read and learn at his own pace.

All,that I know

Of a certain star

Is,it can throw

(Like the angled spar)

Now a dart of red,

Now dart of blue

Till my friends have said

They would fain see,too,

My star that dartles the red and the blue!

Then it stops like a bird;like a flower,hangs furled:

They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.

What matter to me if their star is a world?

Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

Last Years

and

Death

Browning was awarded many distinctions.He was made LL.D. of Edinburgh(which is Legum Doctor, meaning you become the Doctor of Laws in English), a life Governor of London University and had the offer of the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow. However he turned down anything that involved public speaking.

Browning died in Venice on the 12th December 1889, at his son's house in Ca ' Rezzonico.He was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey ; his grave now lies immediately adjacent to that of Alfred Tennyson.

Browning's monologue are frequently voiced by eccentrics,lunatics or people who are under and encountering emotional stress.By describing the interactions of an odd personality with a particularly telling set of circumstances their ramblings illustrate character. In both "Porphyia's Love" and "My Last Duchess" ,Robert Browning uses this mode of exposition to describe a man who responds to the love of a beautiful woman by killing her. Each monologue offers the speakers' reason for the desired women from subject to object,for example, in "My Last Duchess" the Duke may have jealously murdered his wife,but he keeps a portrait of her behind a curtain so none can look upon her smile without his permission.

Brief understanding

of the poem

'My Star'

The Ring and the Book

The poem 'My Star' is a short and simple poem which was published with one of Brownings' poetry collection,Men and Women, in 1855. The idea of the poem was to give the idea that love is looked upon diffrently by different people.It is more than likely to reflect upon the relationship of the marriage between him and his wife,Elizabeth Barret Browning.

In the first stanza it captures the readers excitement within its short quick lines,whereas in the second stanza,it uses more traditional structured lines.

The poem suggests more than just,that love is in the eye of the beholder,but also by saying, that everything that we become aware of is equally understood to personal experiences that you can't really explain.

'Porphyria's Lover'

My Star

By Robert Browning

Porphyria's Lover was first published in 1836 of the issue 'Monthly Repository'. Porphyria's Lover is Brownings first ever short dramatic monologue.The poem uses an unusual rhyme scheme: A,B,A,B,B

Robert Browning is known for his 12 book long novel called 'The Ring and the Book'.It is a long dramatic narrative poem/a verse novel,which consists of 21,000 lines. It was published in 4 volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith,Elder & Co.The poem includes 12 books,9 of which are dramatic monologues spoken by a different narrator involved in the case (Count Guido, one of the major characters,speak twice) usually giving a different account of the same events,and two books(the first and the last) are spoken by the author.

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