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The subject matter of the poem 'Life in Love' is description of things critical in love. Written by Robert Browning, the poem is in a dramatic monologue. The whole state of affairs is described in the poem, a in vivid manner. The poet wishes for the consortium with his lover till both of them are in this world. The feeling of getting dejected in future is visible in the poem, when poet asks his beloved not to leave him in between. However, by the end of the poem, he prepares himself to face the situation. Robert says that he would happily disappear from her life in case she dislikes his presence. This love poem is typical of Browning's writing, where his lead character comes up with the solution before the end of the poem.
Life in Love
Escape me?
Never-
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear-
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed-
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,-
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me-
Ever
Removed!
