1. Substance of the poem:- The poet Robert Browning takes a long journey through the sea to meet his beloved in the darkness of the night, secretly. The sea is grey in colour and the land is black. The speaker moves on through the sea. There is a yellow half-moon visible in the sky. It looks large in size and very low. The waves are very active and playful shining having just risen from their sleep and are dancing in enjoyment. The waves look like fiery ringlets. The speaker moves on until his boat reaches the slushy sand. The speaker disembarks from his boat and walks a mile on the warm sea-scented beach. He crosses three fields to reach his destination. He knocks at the window pane of the farmhouse. His ladylove responds by lighting a match within. He observes this. The voice of the lady love fades away, and only the sound of the beating of the lovers’ hearts could be heard.
2. Central idea of the poem:- Meeting at night describes a journey of a flower who goes to meet his lady love secretly in this poem. The Passion of the poet’s heart is vividly represented. The lover takes a long journey through the sea to reach his beloved. The poet is overwhelmed with the passion that energizes him to overcome all the difficulties at night. He does not think about the hurdles of the Grey Sea and the black land. He overcomes the challenges in the darkness of the night and moves on to meet his beloved The joy of the meeting is very much intense that he forgets all about his sufferings. The excitement of love guides him all the way at last the excitement of meeting overcomes everything through the beating of the lover’s heart.
3. Describe the landscape beauty in the poem meeting at night by Robert Browning in the poem meeting at night
Ans-The poet goes to meet his beloved in the darkness of the night through the sea which is grey in colour and there is black land. The speaker moves on towards the land on a boat, there is the yellow moon visible in the sky looking large and low. The Waves are also the natural landscape that looks like flaming ringlets. When the poet's lands are slushy, then he walks a mile on a warm sea-scented beach and crosses three fields to reach his beloved in a farmhouse. The images of the Grey Sea, log black land yellow half-moon startled waves, slushy sand, the warm sea-scented beach and three fields give the description of the landscape beauty in the poem.
4. Give the functions of the imagery in the poem meeting at night.
Answer- There are a number of images the poet Robert Browning presents in his poem. The imagery plays an important role to beautify the poem. The images used by the poet are very vivid, the image of the yellow half-moon and black land creates an atmosphere for the secret meeting. In the second stanza the images of a tap at the window pane, the quick sharp scratch, and the blue spurt create suspense and build up the climactic moment. Again, the less loud voice of the lady love presents joy and fear, and the beating of the two hearts represents the excitement of a secret meeting. Thus, the poet creates a symbolic setting that suits the unlimited love and passion for the secret meeting the poet makes.
5. Describe the nocturnal atmosphere in the poem meeting at night. The atmosphere, the things or the objects that become active in the darkness of the night make them look beautiful. Here in the poem Meeting at Night, the poet has described an external atmosphere, which is the Shadows of The Dark night falling rapidly and the sea appearing grey in colour, the land appearing long and black as darkness engulfs the atmosphere. The colour of the landscape is an indication of the time and the secrecy of the lover's journey. The sound of scratch made by the match stick, the tap on the window pane and the whisper of the lady love describe the atmosphere of silence and the light of the blue matchsticks intensifies the darkness.
6. What is personification? Do you think the poet Robert Browning has personified his poem? Ans- Personification is a literary style or device where the inanimate object is supposed to be an animate object or, imposing human quality on non-human objects. In the poem Meeting at Night, the poet has personified the little waves making it start in fairy ringlets as we know which do not sleep or leap but the speaker imagines that the Waves rising from their sleep, leap in fairy ringlets. This is an example of personification the poet does so to reveal the emotion of the speaker that the poet is very much excited to meet his lady love secretly in the darkness of the night.
7. what is the significance of the title of the poem meeting at night. The poet Robert Browning describes a secret meeting of lovers in his poem. The first eight lines describe the secret long journey through the sea of the poet to meet his beloved. He then lover overcomes all his obstacles to meet his lady love. After reaching the sea beach in the last four lines of the poem, he shows the clinching effect on the mind of the poet and his beloved. The lover ultimately meets his ladylove and enjoys the meeting by beating their heart teach to each. Thus, the theme moves round and round in the poem, so the title is appropriate and justified.
8. What is the inner meaning of the poem meeting at night?
Ans-See the Central idea of the poem. (Question no 2)
9. Give an account of the lover's journey to his beloved in meeting at night Ans-See the substance of the poem.
(Que-no 1)
10. Who composed the poem meeting at night?
11. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem meeting at night?
12. What does the first stanza of the poem suggest?
13. What does the second stanza of the meeting night capture? Describe the land as presented in the poem.
15. How has the poet described the moon in his poem?
16. What is personification?. Do you think the Waves in the poem have been personified?
17. What do Fiery ringlets suggest?
18. Why the ringlets were fiery?
19. Why do you think the waves were roused from their sleep?
20. “I gained the Cove”- what does it mean?
21. What is the meaning of the prow?
22. Describe the “long sea-scented beach”.
23. Why was the voice of the lady less loud?
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