mp chapter last ride together important questions
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Q1: What type of a poem is The Last Ride Together?
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Q2: Comment on the title of the poem, The Last Ride Together.
OR, Do you think that the title of the poem is justified?
ANS: The title of the poem, The Last Ride Together is fully justified. It refers to the single theme of the poem, namely the attempt at seeking a resolution out of the greatest crisis of the speaker’s life created by the rejection of his love by his beloved. It is in the last ride together with her that he finds a theological and philosophical solution to his problem.
Q3: “Since now at length ….needs must be—“. Who is the speaker here? What makes him lament thus?
ANS: The rejected lover in Browning’s dramatic lyric is the speaker here. He has tried every means to retain her love, but now he understands that he has reached such point of discord where no reconciliation is possible. Therefore he tries to rationalise his failure and console himself by accepting the fact that the rejection must have been predestined.