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Robert Browning
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IMAGERY AND SYMBOLS
Born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England.
His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout
evangelical Christian
His father, who worked as a bank clerk, was also an
artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and
pictures
His rare book collection of more than 6,000 volumes
included works in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian,
and Spanish. Much of Browning's education came from
his well
well--read father
Anonymously published his first major published work,
Pauline,, in 1833 and published Sordello in 1840
Pauline
Died on the same day that his final volume of verse,
Asolando,, was published, in 1889.
Asolando
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Image: Anything that appeals to our
senses, either of sight, hearing, smell,
touch, or taste
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something else
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The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half
half--moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm seasea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
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The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half
half--moon large and low;
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And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
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MEETING AT NIGHT
Robert Browning (1812(1812-1889)
MEETING AT NIGHT
Robert Browning (1812(1812-1889)
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As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
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Then a mile of warm sea
sea--scented beach;
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Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
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A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
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And blue spurt of a lighted match,
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Robert Frost
(1874--1963)
(1874
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And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
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Born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco
First child of Isabelle Moodie and William
Prescott Frost Jr.
First published poem, "La Noche Triste,” in 1890
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Won Pulitzer Prize for A Further Range in 1937
and Elected to membership in the American
Philosophical Society
Awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1963
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Robert Frost
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I--I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Robert Frost (1874
(1874--1963)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
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And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and II----I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference!
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John Donne
(1572--1631)
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A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
John Donne (1572
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Born in Bread Street, London in 1572
Belonged to a prosperous Roman Catholic
family
Studied at University of Oxford and University of
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His principal literary accomplishments were
Divine Poems (1607) and prose work
Biatanathos (published posthumously in 1604)
Last poem written just before his death was
Hymne to God, my God, In my Sicknesse
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Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter--assured of the mind,
Inter
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
While some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some say, no:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear
tear--floods, nor sighsigh-tempests move,
'Twere profanation of our joys,
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant,
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
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If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grow erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.
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A VALEDICTION:
FORBIDDING MOURNING
John Donne (1572
(1572--1631)
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
While some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some say, no:
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So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear
tear--floods, nor sighsigh-tempests move,
'Twere profanation of our joys,
To tell the laity our love.
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Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant,
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
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Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
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But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter--assured of the mind,
Inter
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
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Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
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And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grow erect, as that comes home
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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
AND PARTICIPATION
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.
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SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK
GOOD BYE
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