In "Meeting At Night" Browning is seeking to convey the excitement and intensity of a clandestine love affair. He does this most effectively by making us wait for the much-anticipated assignation between the two lovers; building up the intensity as he lushly describes the moonlit landscape. The love between the two beating hearts is perfectly at one with its natural surroundings, rendered in fine romantic detail.
Though a short poem, "Meeting At Night" describes...
In "Meeting At Night" Browning is seeking to convey the excitement and intensity of a clandestine love affair. He does this most effectively by making us wait for the much-anticipated assignation between the two lovers; building up the intensity as he lushly describes the moonlit landscape. The love between the two beating hearts is perfectly at one with its natural surroundings, rendered in fine romantic detail.
Though a short poem, "Meeting At Night" describes quite a long and arduous journey that the narrator must undertake before he can, at long last, be with his lover. First he needs to row across the sea by moonlight; then he walks a mile along the sand; finally, he hikes across no fewer than three fields before arriving at the farm where his true love awaits his passionate embrace. The length and arduousness of the journey leave us in no doubt that the narrator really is head over heels in love with his paramour and will do anything to be with her.
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