Meeting at Night/Parting at Morning Appreciation

Meeting At Night/ Parting At Morning Appreciation Meeting at Night and Parting at Morning, composed by Robert Br owning, are dickens poems that represent the personal devotion and paradigms associated with an individual living in the early nineteenth Century. Meeting at Night tells the tale of a young raw sienna travelling a long distance to meet up with his lover whilst it also metaphorically recounts a sexual encounter. cook chooses to represent societys inhibitory nature by limning a secretive relationship (reflective of his own relationship with Elizabeth Barrett).In, And the startled little waves that leap/ in fiery ringlets from their eternal sleep, Browning uses personification in conjunction with a metaphor to face that it is late at night and no one knows of their secret meeting. The setting, existence very late at night, also symbolises the secrecy and deceit of their relationship. Browning uses onomatopoeia in A tap at the pane to also portray the silence and secr ecy of the scene. The values and morals of the 19th century were predominately those of the church as religion was paramount in this time period.This means that love, lust and sex were often regarded as forbidden or taboo ideas and so were rarely discussed in society. That is why Browning chooses to portray sex in a metaphorical sense rather than a literal. Browning uses resourcefulness to vividly illustrate this concept such as in, As I gain the cove with push button prow. The use of alliteration in pushing prow emphasises the p sound which allows the reader to make associations with a priapic symbol. The rhyming scheme also creates an escalating pace which comple manpowerts the text, allowing it to convey a chockful understanding of the sexual encounter.The 19th century, being very conservative and strict, was a patriarchal society where societal gender roles defined your place in the world. Browning highlights this by only portraying the poem in the status of a male and hi s own desires and attitudes. This symbolically represents a relationship in this time period as women were seen as insignificant and so only the male was regarded and considered in a relationship. Also, only the male in a relationship will be working.This is seen in Parting at Morning, where the lover leaves the scene with longing to return to his business and career. And straight was a trail of gold for him,/ And the desire of a world of men for me. Browning uses a metaphor in conjunction with high modality in need to represent the lovers desire to return to his job. world of men is a metaphorical representation of the working class which was dominated by males. Meeting at Night and Parting at Moring are two poems composed by Robert Browning that represent the values and attitudes of society of the 19th century.