Life In A Love Analysis

Escape me?

Never---

Beloved!

While I am I, and you are you,

So long as the world contains us both,

Me the loving and you the loth

While the one eludes, must the other pursue.

My life is a fault at last, I fear:

It seems too much like a fate, indeed!

Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.

But what if I fail of my purpose here?

It is but to keep the nerves at strain,

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,

And, baffled, get up and begin again,---

So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.

While, look but once from your farthest bound

At me so deep in the dust and dark,

No sooner the old hope goes to ground

Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,

I shape me---

Ever

Removed!

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I love this it describes the stage at which I am at present. This poem to me is about someone being inlove with someone and pursuing but the person is not interested in the least, "me the loving you the loth". Many of us have loved and not get love in return. But he pursues her anyway. After a while you must give up and move on. Love is complicated, so but I too love a man and I am the loving.

| Posted on 2009-11-19 | by a guest

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I believe it's another example of the twisted minds Browning so often presents. The speakers seems a seriously dysfunctional character, like Porphyria's lover or the Duke of Ferrara. He is stalking some women and rationalising it to himself. The rhyme scheme is disjointed and uncomfortable which reinforces that the speaker is disjointed mentally. He alliteration of the d at the end is sharp and dark which again suggests an uncomfortable mental state. He seems determined that he will love her no matter what she wants and if something were to happen to her then he'd move on to somehting else. it's a freaky (but well cool) poem. Reminds me a lot of the main character in John Fowles "The Collector".

| Posted on 2009-01-27 | by a guest

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i think this pOem is about how he lived in the shodow of his love (elizabeth barrett) . she was a well known poet ,his career ddint start of so well . hints the title life in a love

| Posted on 2009-01-21 | by a guest

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If you know the love that existed between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, you would not say it was unrequited love. Elizabeth, addicted to opium probably feared she was losing the love of her life. He is only reassuring her that he will love her for all eternity, just as she tells hin in Sonnet 43...
She died in his arms...what does that tell you? M.A.D.

| Posted on 2008-11-29 | by a guest

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This poem was most likly about a man who loves a girl and she doesnt love him the same way back.

| Posted on 2008-11-14 | by a guest

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This is a story of a love that is unrequited, undying, and hopeless. (In this century, Browning would likely have been arrested for stalking and sentenced to therapy and medication.) The object of his affection has evidently told him that he is unloved and he responds to her with "Escape me? Never, beloved." He shows us that he recognizes the hopelessness of his pursuit and even his inability to turn away and give up the pursuit; "My life is a fault...", "it seems too much like a fate...", "Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed." He recognizes his own hopelessness. He should get some of those instructional "How to Pick up Women" CD's; Worked for me.

| Posted on 2008-07-10 | by a guest

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=i think it's saying that he likes a girl, and he will never get her to love her the way he does. So he chases her and chases her, but he finally realizes he can't get her to love him the way he loves her. So says im finally gonna let you go, and love will find me again

| Posted on 2008-04-28 | by a guest

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its kind of like...guy likes a girl...and like its said in the 1st 3 lines where he asks a question to himself and answers it on his own which shows that his heart which is arguing against his reasoning power and he himself says that he does not want the girl to leave him..which is de voice of his heart...he tries to convince himself that he will be able to convince her to come back to him ..and says..."while the one eludes,must the other persue"..which means that he tells himself that he should try to get her back in his life..but then the voice of his reaoning takes over and he thinks that whatever he will try might go in vain and that there isint much chance of him succeeding in bringing her back...and then he compares his loss to various things because of the fact that the girl might not love him at all,which is a risk for him...then he imagines that he has lost all his hopes which to him seem like falling on the ground in the dust after he tries again and again..and he gives up...and then he says that again very soon he is enlightened with renewed hope and after giving up..he returns to his old mark ..that his his old derire and wish to get her back...the poems title is self explanatory as there the poet says that his life lies in loving the girl

| Posted on 2005-10-04 | by Approved Guest

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This is an internal struggle to try and get the girl he loves struggles between his heart and his mind. One tells him to go after her because he loves her and hopes to change her mind while the other says it's a waist of time because she will never love him. These slides should identify important lines or passages, discuss various poetic techniques the poet employs, explain the significance of images or symbols, and present clear statements about the theme of the poem.

| Posted on 2005-01-03 | by Approved Guest