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Prospice

The poem Prospice was written by Browning shortly following the death of
Browning’s wife, Elizabeth in 1861
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The
poem is in the form of a dramatic monologue, and can be seen as an unusually
biographical poem
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The speaker can be seen as a soldier who faces death with sheer courage
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The rhetoric elements in the poem lead us towards a more positive outlook on
death, and the title, meaning “Look Forward”, emphasises that there is hope
and life after death
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see and have to face up to
I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more,
The best and the last!
AO4 – relates to his life as he
was neglected by critics
earlier on and also initially
rejected by Elizabeth

I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore,
And bade me creep past
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For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,
The black minute's at end,
And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,
Shall dwindle, shall blend,
Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain,
Then a light, then thy breast,
O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again,
And with God be the rest!
Reference to Elizabeth Browning

Emphasises he isn’t afraid to
die like others
Peers – those who rejected
him?
Extended metaphor?
Reference to soldiers and a
battle
Rhetorical language throughout, RO3,
superlatives, Rhetorical Question
persuading us of his view that we
shouldn’t fear death, because
afterwards is heaven
Process of going to heaven and
joining his wife, he is optimistic
and hopeful rather than fearful

AO4: People fear death because they are
uncertain of what comes afterwards
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