Question

The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove1 with pushing prow2, And quench its speed i’3 the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A rap at the pane4, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro’5 its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each. . —Robert Browning 1 A cove is a small inlet from the sea. 2 A prow is the front end of a boat. 3 i’ is short for in. 4 Pane refers to a windowpane. 5 Thro’ is short for through. Each stanza in this poem has six lines. Which lines rhyme within each stanza? What is the main idea of this poem? In ordinary language, describe the mental pictures you get from the first stanza. In the first stanza, why do you think the poet says that little waves look like “fiery ringlets”? What does the last line of the poem tell you?

Answer 1

What is the poem because the way you wrote that is confusing

Answer 2

In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the sixth line. Similarly, the second line rhymes with the fifth line and the third line rhymes with the fourth line. Thus, each verse shows an interesting musicality between the six lines.

The main idea of ​​the poem is a person's desire to reach the heart of the person they love, that is, the poem talks about unrequited love, but the speaker wishes to reach the heart of the person he loves, making it to love you too.

In the first stanza we are introduced to a speaker who can withstand anything between him and his beloved, who has curls of fire. He can endure everything patiently, neither time nor space are able to make him give up.

In the first stanza we are introduced to a speaker who can withstand anything between him and his beloved, who has curls of fire. In addition, he describes what his beloved looks like when he says that small waves look like "ringlets of fire", he probably uses this to talk about the hair of his beloved, who must have red curls.

In the last line of the poem, we can see that the speaker believes that if time and space cannot separate him from his beloved, it means that time and space do not exist, as long as there is enough love between him and his beloved.