Meeting at Night by Robert Browning - S.A.Q. (Marks – 01)

 Meeting at Night

Robert Browning

S.A.Q. (Marks – 01)

1. Who has composed the poem, ‘Meeting at Night’?

Answer: The poem, ‘Meeting at Night’ was composed by Robert Browning.

2. What literary genre is followed to compose the poem, ‘Meeting at Night’?

Answer: The poem, Meeting at Night is a kind of dramatic lyric.

3. What does the word, ‘meeting’ refer to?

Answer: The very title word, ‘meeting’ refers to the encounter between Robert Browning and his beloved, Elizabeth.

4. When did the poet-lover start the voyage?

Answer: The poet-lover started the sea-voyage in the evening.

5. What is referred to as ‘long black land’?

Answer: The ‘long black land’ referred to the land of England from where the poet-lover started his sea-voyage in order to meet his beloved, Elizabeth in Florence.

6. Why is the land appeared to be ‘black’?

Answer: When the poet-lover was ready to sail to the far end of the sea, the half-moon was there in the evening. But the land from where he started his sea-voyage was at a distance from the poet, so it appeared to be ‘black’.

7. What are the ‘ringlets’ in the expression, ‘in fiery ringlets’?

Answer: ‘Ringlets’ were the waves created by the movements of the ship the poet boarded on. Actually when the poet-lover executed his sea-voyage in the moon-lit night the sea-waves reflected the golden color of the moon as if they had caught fire. Hence, they are called ‘fiery ringlets’.

8. What does the expression, ‘sea-scented beach’ mean?

Answer: The expression, ‘sea-scented beach’ from the poem, ‘Meeting at Night’ by Robert Browning refers to the beach which was full of the scent of the sea –both flora and fauna.

9. Why do the love-partners become voiceless after a long waiting to meet each other?

Answer: After a long waiting, when the two love-partners met each other, they became quiet and speechless because the feelings of the love partners were too deep for verbal expression.

10. What is symbolic significance of crossing the ‘three fields’?

Answer: In the poem, ‘Meeting at Night’, the ‘three fields’ symbolically suggests the ‘three problems’ in the love-partners’ real life. First of all, it is Elizabeth’s father who had forbidden all twelve of his sons and daughter not to get married; second, the code of the society they lived in, according to which marriage must be accomplished between the members of same social class and the third prevails ‘the long distance’ between London and Florence where Robert and Elizabeth were respectively living at that time.

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