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After by Robert Browning
Posted by: Pauls! (98.240.187.---)
Date: December 06, 2021 09:28PM

Can anyone help me analyze this poem?

Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do its worst!

How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And, absorbed in the new life he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.
Ha, what avails death to erase
His offence, my disgrace?
I would we were boys as of old
In the field, by the fold:
His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn
Were so easily borne!

I stand here now, he lies in his place:
Cover the face!

I know it is about a corpse of someone the speaker used to know, but I'm not quite sure what Browning is trying to say about death. Also, if anyone can tell me when this was written, that would be great.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2021 09:53PM by Pauls!.


Re: After by Robert Browning
Posted by: marian222 (86.128.33.---)
Date: December 10, 2021 06:40PM

there's a bit about it here that may help:
[www.poemhunter.com]


Re: After by Robert Browning
Posted by: misterF (91.109.251.---)
Date: December 20, 2021 05:39PM

Date is around 1855 - from his masterpiece of his middle period, Men and Women.


Re: After by Robert Browning
Posted by: Chalinaonception (122.177.138.---)
Date: January 12, 2022 02:26AM

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Re: After by Robert Browning
Posted by: alanos (95.135.188.---)
Date: February 03, 2022 04:48AM

didn't like the poem. not a good one, really. visit research papers online and find a better one




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