Analysis of Two In The Campagna by Robert Browning Essay -- Robert Bro

Analysis of both In The Campagna by Robert toastingTwo In The Campagna is essentially a love poem, written by browningto perplex the tragic and dark aspects of a relationship. The poemcommences with romantic images of the couple posing in the fields ofRome in spring. The first line, starting with I wonder sets the broody t bingle of the piece, and the poet follows one particulartrail of thought for several stanzas. Clearly, the poet is laborious tocapture what cannot be easily confined he is attempting to articulatea sentiment of fleeting love that perhaps can only be felt. browndescribes the thought floating away over the picturesque conniption?Help me to hold it First it leftThe yellowing fennel, run to seedThere, ramous from the brickwork?s cleft??The flowing lines and use of enjambment represent his thoughtsspilling over, close to frolicking through the fields of Rome. Thisstyle of poetry is used by Browning regularly for example in ?LoveAmong The Ruins? his thoughts flow over from one line to the next ?however the message of this poem is the opposite from ?Two In TheCampagna?, as the former depicts the enduring power of passionatelove, and the last mentioned describes the natural diminution of feelingsafter the passionate climax of sex.The poem becomes increasingly vibrant and passionate as the coupleevidently become sexually aroused together. In my opinion, theimagery of the beetles inside a flower is fabulously vivid and is oneof my personal favourite images in all of Browning?s love poetry??Where one small orange shape amassedFive beetles,--blind and green they gropeAmong the honey-meal??The images are abundantly fertile, with an intense evocation... ...uchillogically violent ways. However, it does capture the essence ofjealousy, possessiveness and the yearning for eternal unity that galore(postnominal)people do feel. Browning has evidently taken this to the extremeeffectively, as it is his style to shock the reader.In conclusion, Browning uses many different techniques of conveyancingthe complexities of human passion, and does this effectively from manypoints of wad on love. However, it does seem that Browning usuallyhas a slightly subdued, possibly even warped view of love and romance? and this could be because his own love life was in public perceivedto be ultimately perfect but retrospectively it appears his marriagewith Elizabeth Browning was full of doubt and possessiveness, as seenin ?Any married woman To Any Husband? which most critics believe to be based onthe troubled relationship between the Browning?s.