Browning's dramatic monologue 'The Last Ride Together' is
an exploration of the end of a love affair. The affair has been ended by the woman,
however Browning is suggesting, through his narrator, that rather than feeling sad about
this he should feel happy and proud and 'bless/ Your name in pride and thankfulness'
about the love that was.
Browning is suggesting that this
last ride together is like a moment of perfection that can be remembered for all time
with fondness and without regret. Love is difficult and Browning writes that 'all men
strive and who suceeds?' but striving is important to Browning in this and other poems.
Love is being regarded as man's supreme achievement even more important then deeds done
during a war for which a soldier may only expect that 'They scratch his name on the
Abbey-stones.' Love is also seen as more important than art and Browning is again
looking at the relationhip between life and art as he does in Fra Lippo Lippi, for
example.
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