What claim does Browning make for himself? Do you find this spirit in any of his poetry which you have read?
"DE GUSTIBUS—." (PAGE [96].)
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Image the scene in the first stanza. Why are the poppies known by their flutter, rather than their color? Note the rhyme effect and climax in lines 11-13. What qualities predominate in the first scene? How does the second scene differ from it? What are the characteristic objects in the second? Has it more or less of the romantic, or of grandeur? Compare the human element introduced in each scene. Note the effectiveness of the epithets a-flutter, wind-grieved, baked,red-rusted, iron-spiked. Show how the poem explains its title.
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THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND. (PAGE [98].)
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The setting of the story is Italy's struggle against Austria for her liberty, known as the Revolution of 1848.
[8]. [Charles]. Carlo Alberto, Prince of Carignano, of the house of Savoy.
[19]. [Metternich] (1773-1859). The Austrian diplomatist, and the enemy of Italian liberty.