Robert Browning's Optimism

BROWNING’S OPTIMISM   Robert Browning was an extra-ordinary, outstanding and eminent poet of Victorian era. He marveled in the form of dramatic monologue and won supremacy over his contemporaries. He is mostly regarded as an optimist. His robust optimism may well be called a hallmark of his grand poetry. He preached God and immortality as the central and fundamental truth of his philosophy of life.   Generally, optimism implies broader and brighter outlook and positive views about life and the realities of life. Browning in almost all of his poems, harps on the same string in the sense that his ideas mainly and necessarily revolve around only one pivot i.e. optimism. Hence, his poetry is a severe and strong protest against pessimistic mood.   He does not go in line with the facile optimism of Pope and Bolingbroke who said; ‘Whatever is, is right.’ Rather he says;   “Whatever is, is wrong. We may put it right and, in this effort, we acquire new moral power.”   Brown