PHILOSOPHY OF PAIN, SUFFERING, AND EVIL IN THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE COMMON SUBJECTS

Authors

  • Meenakshi Sharma Yadav Assistant Professor of English, Faculty of Languages and Translation, (Community College for Girls, Abha), King Khalid University, Asir-Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Manoj Kumar Yadav Independent Assistant Professor and Researcher of English Literature, Lalawali (Bansur) Alwar, Rajasthan, India

Keywords:

optimism, acquiescence, deficiency, contemplation, wrangling, dichotomy, imperfection, extinction

Abstract

The Victorian poet, Robert Browning was mostly regarded as a great poet of love and an innovator of the dramatic monologue. He was also equally popularly the best-known for his philosophy of optimism, and the philosophy of the Imperfect. But few have looked at Browning’s philosophy of pain, suffering, and evil revealed in his poetry. A humble attempt has been made in this article to explore the common subjects, themes and treatment of pain, suffering, and evil in the poetry of Robert Browning to which a precise and careful evaluative investigation have been assessed by a gone through his some poems abounded with multiple and manifold notions and speeches of speakers, lofty subject-matters, ejaculated diction, presentation, contemporary common psychoanalytical issues and cultural appearance, philosophy of the grand stories on the ground of common subjects and objects, selection of the private and common symbols, perfect imaginary, viewpoint and the perfect creation of characterizations.

Author Biographies

  • Meenakshi Sharma Yadav, Assistant Professor of English, Faculty of Languages and Translation, (Community College for Girls, Abha), King Khalid University, Asir-Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Dr. Meenakshi Sharma Yadav, presently, is working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Faculty of Languages & Translation, (Community College for Girls, Abha) King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. She has teaching experience for more than ten years at the national and international universities. Her interest in the research area is in Linguistics and English Literature.

  • Manoj Kumar Yadav, Independent Assistant Professor and Researcher of English Literature, Lalawali (Bansur) Alwar, Rajasthan, India

    Dr. Manoj Kumar Yadav is an Independent Assistant Professor and researcher of English Literature. He has teaching experience for more than eleven years at national and international universities. His interest in research is in ESL, English literature and literary criticism.

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Web Links

"Browning, Robert." Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature. . Retrieved March 14, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/browning-robert

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2019-04-11

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2019)

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