Wanting Is What A Poetry Analysis by Robert Browning
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An Analysis of Wanting is- What?
An encounter with a summer love can woo an individual long after summer has passed, and even into the fall. The summer seems to be so refreshing, new, and tasteful. The gleaming sun brings an attractive glow upon the face, and produces a growth spout of summer passion with that one particular someone. Wanting is- what? is a poem by Robert Browning in which he refers to a love that has blossomed, but has suddenly died off in the summer. In Browning's poems such as this one and others like Earth's Immorality, spring is the beginning of love and summer is the last chapter of it- right before autumn arrives. This poem displays how love can be a beautiful thing until it is shattered by the coming of another season.
The poem begins by stating the rhetorical question in stanza 1, line 1, "Wanting is- what?" The ellipse is present for a sense of continuation of that same thought, but without any plans of completing the question...