LIFE IN A LOVE, Robert Browning

LIFE IN A LOVE

 

Robert Browning

 

 

 

Escape me?

 

never-

 

Beloved!

 

While I am I, and you are you,

 

So long as the world contains us both,

 

Me the loving and you the loth,

 

While the one eludes, must the other pursue.

 

My life is a fault at last, I fear-

 

It seems too much like a fate, indeed!

 

Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed-

 

But what if I fail of my purpose here?

 

It is but to keep the nerves at strain,

 

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fail,

 

And baffled, get up to begin again,-

 

So the chace takes up one's life, that's all.

 

While, look but once from your farthest bound,

 

At me so deep in the dust and dark,

 

No sooner the old hope drops to ground

 

Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,

 

I shape me-

 

Ever Removed!

 

 

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Meaning

 

Life in Love is a poem by Robert Browning that sings of the intense passion and frustration of love.

 

 

 

The speaker of the poem is in sorrow and despair over losing a loved one. He tells her that he cannot keep her beloved away, and he vows not to give up on her own love for her.

 

 

 

In the last part of the poem, the speaker speaks to his loved one. He asks her to take a look at him from a distance just once. The speaker says that he cannot forget her and that he will cherish his love for her forever.

 

 

Robert Browning Robert Browning

 

He was born as the eldest son in a middle-class family in London on May 7, 1812. His father was a banker and a reader who loved poetry. Browning received private instruction from a tutor. When he was 35, he met Elizabeth Barrett, a female poet six years his senior, and despite her opposition, he married her and lived in Italy for 15 years. He began his career while nursing his sick wife, had a son, and became England's greatest poet at the age of 57. He passed away at the age of 78.

 

 

Story

 

Once upon a time, there was a young man who lived in a village. He went to an amusement park one day and met a beautiful woman. The young man fell in love with her woman at first sight, and he confessed his love to her.

 

 

 

The woman accepted her young man's love, but the two had many conflicts because they grew up in different environments. The young man loved her woman, but he did not listen to her and acted on her own stubbornness.

 

 

 

Eventually, the two broke up. The young man was saddened by the loss of her beloved, and he was tormented by missing her.

 

 

 

The young man tried to see his loved one again. He looked for her, but she was already married to someone else.

 

 

 

The young man was in sorrow and despair over losing his loved one. He couldn't forget her, and he vowed to keep his love for her forever.

 

 

 

Question

 

Student: What does the phrase "Away from me? Never - my beloved!" mean in Life in Love?

 

 

 

Professor: Those words express the intense obsession with love, the inability to lose the person you love. Although the narrator knows that he cannot keep her beloved away, he is haunted by her fear of losing her.

 

 

 

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Student: What does the phrase from A Life in Love mean, "But what if I don't achieve my goal here? I can hold my head high, wipe away my tears, laugh when I fall, and when I fail, I get up and start again. So all I can do is chase for the rest of my life." shall?

 

 

 

Professor: Those words express the speaker's firm will to love. Although the speaker has lost her loved one, he is determined to continue trying to see her again. He is not afraid of failure and will rise again and pursue love.

 

 

 

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Student: What does the phrase “me buried deep in dust and darkness” mean in Life in Love?

 

 

 

Professor: Those words express the speaker's sadness and despair over losing a loved one. After losing his loved one, the speaker loses the meaning of his life and falls into despair. He feels as if he is buried in dust and darkness.

 

 

 

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