Love and sex, for Browning, were the peak of activities, of which human beings are
capable, thus, he devoted his most intense and perfect consideration to it. Unlike
the romantic poets, he created his world of love lyrics like a practiced lover and he
did not stick to a specific subject, rather he touched and treated almost all the colors of
love imbued in sex. Browning’s subject was neither happy nor unhappy love but love as
an experience, a love that includes both the ends of ideal, spiritual and physical love, and
sees a line of horizon whose reality was bound up with its permanence; his greatest love
poetry is quite reflective of idealism in love as well as the physical charm of love.
Browning pours out the most hidden feelings of his heart. At the time when he and
Elizabeth established friendship, nobody could have expected that this union would flourish
into perfection in all respects. The poet unfolds that they had got united in love knot and
their union of flesh could bring infinite pleasure to successfully quench the basic instinct
of human body leading to an unforgettable experience of love. But they could not have
guessed that their union would become so complete.
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