Poem Summary : The Last Ride Together
The Last Ride Together Robert Browning (1812-1889) The poem 'The Last Ride Together' was published in the first volume of 'Men and Women' in the year 1855 it is a fine example of dramatic monologue, the form in which Browning was specialised. In the poem Browning the poet and Philosopher joins hand with Browning the psychologist. It is the theory of fatalism which finds a fine expression through Browning's robust optimism. The poem is about unrequited love - The rejected lover takes the rejection as a decree of fate and therefore finds success in the faliure of love. The poem undoubtedly reveals to us the psychology of the lover who is now caught in the net of hope and fear - whether his proposal of a ride with her for the last time will be granted or not and then gradua...