Who is the speaker in the poem meeting at night by Robert Browning
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In the poem 'Meeting at night' the speaker in the poem is someone who is on their way to meet with someone they love dearly.
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Who is the speaker in the poem "Meeting at Night"?
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CLEVELAND GOODMAN eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
I think you might be referring to the poem "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning, as the poem takes place late at night, when the moon is "large and low."
The speaker in the poem is someone who is on their way to meet with someone they love dearly. Initially the narrator appears to be a general, omniscient narrator. However, near the end of the first stanza, the narrator uses the term "I" to refer to their approach to a cove, stating "I gain the cove with pushing prow, / And quench its speed i' the slushy sand." Here it becomes clear that rather than an outside entity observing the scene, the narrator is the one experiencing it, traveling to a specific destination for a specific reason.