This poet responded to his wife's death with a poem whose speaker hopes to "bear the brunt, in a minutepay life's glad arrears of pain, darkness, and cold."
This poet responded to his wife's death with a poem whose speaker hopes to "bear the brunt, in a minutepay life's glad arrears of pain, darkness, and cold." He wrote, "This, I was worth to God, whose wheel thepitcher shaped," in a poem that responds to the hedonism of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This author of"Prospice" wrote, "Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!" in a poem beginning "Growold along with me! The best is yet to be!" The line, "And yet God has not said a word!" concludes anotherof his poems, whose speaker strangles his beloved with her own hair. For 10 points, name this British poetwhose dramatic monologues include "Rabbi Ben Ezra," "Porphyria's Lover," and "My Last Duchess."
This poet responded to his wife's death with a poem whose speaker hopes to "bear the brunt, in a minutepay life's glad arrears of pain, darkness, and cold."
Robert Browning