Meeting at Night

Assignment: “Meeting At Night” is a love poem and it explores the relationship between lovers.
Show how the poem treats the subject and how successful the author is in dealing with the subject.
Purpose: R

“Meeting At Night” is a love poem where the author Robert Browning conveys what it is like to be in love and is most certainly successful at this. In this essay I will analyse why I think the author succeeds in dealing with the topic of love.

The poem charts a lover journey across sea and land to see his partner; furthermore the journey is made at night, indicating to the reader that the lovers may not be allowed to meet. In the first stanza of the poem the author described the sea journey. I believe the poet is successfully creates the idea of the man struggling to see his lover which helps him to become successful in dealing with the topic. The hardship of the relationship can be seen in this quote

“The grey sea and the long black land”

In this quote an air of difficulty and hardship is created   by the use of the adjectives “grey” and “black” and it becomes more romantic when the reader is made aware that he struggling and going through difficulty to reach his lover.

Throughout the whole poem the author uses atmosphere and setting to create a romantic air. One technique the poet uses to create such an air is contrasting certain elements. The reader can see this clearly when he contrasts the temperature of the difficult journey in the first stanza with the warmer easier much more ideal journey of the second.

“Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach”

In this particular quote the author successfully contrasts warm with cold, creating a much easier and romantic air because the reader is given the impression as he nears the end of his journey things begin to become much easier as opposed the trials of the difficult first stanza.

In “Meeting At Night” the moods and feelings conjured by the author is both stanzas are very different. The second...