Fra Lippo Lippi critical analysis
"We would rather have Fra Lippo Lippi than any essay on Realism in art" - George Eliot The Victorian poet, Robert Browning is famously known for his dramatic monologues and is a poet who aspires to draw upon the true nature of reality. He aims to bring forth in his writing, a depiction untainted by falseness or obscurity. And the poem Fra Lippo Lippi echoes this aspect of his poetry. The main focus of the poem is to question the readers as to what should be the right representation of art - should it be the idealistic form of art, with only the soul, something beyond the reality or should it hold up a mirror to life. Hence giving his readers food for thought. Like many of Browning dramatic monologues, the listener is completely the silent interlocutor and is subjugated and mesmerised by the speaker’s speech. And tells the readers a short account of the speaker and his life through the poem. The poem starts in media res, a common feature Browning employs to his poetry. We lear