Meeting at Night vs Parting at Morning

These two poems by Robert Browning are related each other. At the poem “Meeting at Night”, it tells about the couple who are love each other meeting at the night. At first, the man feels lonely because he has not find his love that Browning represented it by “The grey sea and the long black land”. Then, to meet the woman to reach his love, he passed through many challenges and obstacles.  

 He should do a very long journey through the sea with his boat represented by “Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach”, walking through three farms until he arrives at a farm that represented by “Three fields to cross till a farm appears”. However, he did it happily since he has a big optimistic. Because they are not allowed to meet each other, he has to be very careful when meeting the woman. That’s why the man comes at night that Browning represented it in the first and second line “The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low”. It tells that the time is in late twilight or early evening, when the sea and the land are still distinguishable from each other, and when the moon is low. After all his hassles, he succeeds to find what he looked for. The loneliness has gone and changed by brightness which represented by “And blue spurt of lighted match”. And finally he got what he dreamed about. And in the next poem “ Parting at Morning” is tell about how a man thought he was in love with a woman before, but in the morning after he finally gets what he wanted, he realized that he just wants to get back to the “World of men”. He leaves the woman who is probably still in love with him and goes back to his original life like nothing ever happened. “Round the cape of a sudden came the sea” represents the man’s realization that he really isn’t love the woman. it came “suddenly” because he didn’t expected it before. In the middle two lines tells how the man defending his decision to leave the woman, but in the end he goes back to his own life without even thinking about the woman feel.

I think, the story in poem Meeting at night is continues in poem Parting at Morning. At first he do all what he can to meet his love, but after he gets what he want he realized that actually he doesn’t really love the woman. So he left the woman after the night they have a time together. The poem actually tells about human emotion about love.