Time and Sequence in Robert Browning Poems
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- Time and Sequence in Robert Browning's Poems
- The Patriot
- The narrative is a retrospective
- "The church spires flamed."
- "It was I who leaped the sun."
- The Patriot is recounting what happened last year.
- The poem is arranged into six parts, like chapters in a story
- "III"
- "VI"
- The end of the story is in present tense - we reach the end of the story and his life
- "I go in the rain."
- "Thus I go!"
- The narrative is a retrospective
- My Last Duchess
- The story is a retrospective; the Duke is telling someone about his late wife
- "I gave commands."
- "She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad."
- The end of the poem is in present tense, as the Duke seeks another wife.
- "Will't please you rise?"
- "Nay, we'll go together down, sir."
- The story is a retrospective; the Duke is telling someone about his late wife
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- The story is told by an omniscient narrator
- "Hamelin Town's in Brunswick."
- "So Willy...when we've promised them aught, let us keep out promise!"
- The story is told by an omniscient narrator
- Porphyria's Lover
- The story is a retrospective - a dramatic monologue.
- "I debated what to do"
- "And strangled her."
- At the end of the poem the narrative skips to present tense, and we see the narrator is still with his dead lover! Scary!
- "We sit together now."
- "Her head, which droops upon [his shoulder] still."
- The story is a retrospective - a dramatic monologue.
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- The story is a retrospective - a dramatic monologue.
- "I drew men's faces on my copy books."
- "I painted all."
- The story is a retrospective - a dramatic monologue.
- The Laboratory
- The story is told in present tense - the narrator is buying poison right now.
- "You call it a gum?"
- "Grind away."
- The story is told in present tense - the narrator is buying poison right now.
- The Patriot
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