ROBERT BROWNING AS A NATURE POET

Abstract

Robert Browning, popularly known as the ‘Victorian Donne,’ was a major Victorian poet. The world of leaves and flowers rarely reflects human thoughts and emotions in Browning’s poetry as it reflects in other poets like Tennyson. According to Browning God created Nature for the joy as he is interested in creativity, but before Man was born, God and Nature were alone together. In Browning’s poetry there is thoroughly and completely apartness of Nature from us. As far as Nature is concerned, she is all alive; not dead. But she has her own distinct, her own separate joy and sorrows. Browning also applies nature as a store – house of images like other poets to illustrate the thinking, the doing, and character of man. Browning’s love of nature is cosmopolitan. Browning’s love of color is absolutely surprising, greater than that of any other English poet. Browning does not write; he paints what he has actually seen drawing directly from Nature. As a result, his landscapes are remarkable for accuracy and minuteness. Robert Browning is predominantly a poet of man, and his landscapes have been by now and then landscapes with human figures. Like his entire genius, Browning’s treatment of nature underwent a slow process of evolution. He paints originally and in his own way from the beginning rather than imitate. The decay of Browning’s love of Nature, is the decay of his poetry as well. The present paper attempts to find out treatment of nature in Browning’s poetry. It also highlights his love for colours, his landscapes as miniature painting, his love for animal life, evolution of his nature-treatment and his love for nature decaying and decaying his poetry.