Meeting At Night - Robert Browning



  1. 'Meeting at Night' is a short poem divided into two parts.

  2. Each stanza consists six-line.

  3. The poem describes the speaker's nighttime journey to meet his beloved.

  4. We see how the poet is desperate to meet his beloved.

  5. Very minutely the poet describes, here he takes out the boat and hurriedly crosses the river, the sand. 


  6. And how he would tap out the window.

  7. There would be a strike of the matches.

  8. And the lovers meet silently with no voice heard except their breathing.

  9. Initially, the poem had also the description where the poet gives his departure.

  10. But later the poem was divided into two parts 'Meeting at night' and 'Parting at morning.'

  11. In the first stanza, Browning creates a contrast between the desperate speaker and the landscape around which the poet does not narrate.

  12. The images used tells us the state of the poet.

  13. He leaves on a boat, giving beautiful images of sea, sky and land.