[5]. [Nautch]. An Indian dancing-girl, to whom Browning ascribes the skill of a magician.
The poem celebrates the transforming and life-giving power of affection. Note the abrupt and excited manner of utterance, and how the speaker begins in the midst of things. He has already told his story once, when the poem opens. Note also the parallelism of structure, as in Misconceptions, the climax in each stanza, and the echo in the last line of each. Tell the story in the common order of prose narrative.
APPARITIONS. (PAGE [49].)
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Study the development of the idea in the same manner as in Misconceptions and Natural Magic. Note the felicity of imagery and diction.
A WALL. (PAGE [50].)
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The clew to the meaning is to be sought in the last two stanzas. This is one of the best examples of Browning's "assertion of the soul in song."
CONFESSIONS. (PAGE [51].)
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