ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“The Last Ride Together” is an unique poem by English poet Robert Browning, first published in his 1855 collection “Men and Women”, his first important work released after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Last Ride Together was first published in the collection, ‘Men and Women’, in 1855. It was included later in Dramatic Romances, 1868. The poem is regarded as one of the noblest of Browning’s love poems.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Victorian public was baffled by this, and Browning returned to the brief, concise lyric for his last volume, Asolando (1889), published on the day of his death.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a moment of exultation, he dreams of the world suddenly coming to an end so that he may find himself riding into eternity in the company of the woman he loves. As a love poem it tells the story of a rejected lover’s last ride with his beloved.

Detailed explanation-5: -"How Do I Love Thee?” (Sonnet 43) is probably Barrett Browning’s most famous poem today. The victim of a thousand wedding readings, it is part of her Sonnets from the Portuguese cycle, and was written during her courtship with Robert Browning.