Obscurity in Browning's Poetry

OBSCURITY IN BROWNING’S POETRY   Robert Browning is one of the most remarkable poets of Victorian era. His poems are often noticed to be incomprehensible and obscure. In fact, the most glaring drawback of Browning’s poetry is obscurity in it. He has been criticized because of his obscurity.   In the early period of his poetry, he was discarded on the ground of his obscure and incomprehensive style of composing poetry but, with the passage of time, profound and deep study of Browning’s masterpiece proved that he should not be regarded as an obscure poet because his poetry is not as incomprehensible as it is considered to be.   The matter of fact is that it is impossible to write psychological poems in a simple, direct and straightforward way. But R. Browning was one of the most difficult poets who dealt with the exposition of man’s inner clock work. He wrote not to please his readers or the critics but himself. He cared little for the criticism of many of his poems. He wrote t