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Robert Browning - Optimism ~ English Literature

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Robert Browning - Optimism
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Browning is an optimist, and as an optimist, he is a moralist and a religious teacher. He holds a very distinct place among the writers of the Victorian Age. He is an uncompromising foe of “Scientific Materialism”. He preaches God and universality as the central truth of his philosophy of life. Victorian Age is a watershed age in English literature. As there is the influence of Classicism, Italian Renaissance, British Renaissance, Individualism, Utilitarianism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism and Scepticism. Socialism,

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Therefore, there are a lot of confusions and conflicts in this age. There are the conflicts between art and life, art and morality, content and form, man and woman, classic education and progressive education, flesh and spirit, body and soul and what not. In this entire prevailed situation, Browning remains unaffected by these confusions and conflicts. He is at heart an optimist. His optimism is clear even in his style of writing a poem that he always picks up his central character in crisis or in some critical situation, then this crisis reaches the climax and ultimately resolved and he ends his poem with optimism. As in his poem “Patriot into Traitor”, he says: ’Tis God shall repay one, I am safer so. As in “Fra Lippo Lippi”, he says:
Don’t fear me! There is the grey beginning. Zooks!


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