A Grammarian's Funeral by Robert Browning
Followers carry their dead master from the plain to a mountain summit for burial, singing as they climb. Their spokesman recalls how the grammarian postponed living to pursue exhaustive learning, studied through illness until death, and trusted God to complete what earthly life left unfinished.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Philosophical Poetry · 1,600 words
First lines
Shortly After the Revival of Learning in Europe
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Philosophical Poetry
- Length: 1,600 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Dramatic Monologue — A member of the funeral procession addresses the other bearers, directing their climb while defending their master's choices.
- Elegy — The mourners accompany their dead master to his burial place and commemorate his persistence in learning.
- Philosophical Poetry — The speaker contrasts immediate earthly rewards with unfinished intellectual ambition and trust in fulfillment beyond death.
Tags
funeral procession · grammar · scholarship · mortality · intellectual ambition · faith