"Ben Ezra, a Spanish Jew who lived in the twelfth century, was a distinguished scholar. In this poem, however, Browning does not build on historic facts. He simply needed, as the mouthpiece of the ideas of the poem, a theist familiar with the Scriptures. The point of view is the antithesis of that of the Epicurean and Sceptic, the man who lives for the passing moment."
Source: http://www.rpo.library.utoronto.co/poem/295.html About Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/ibnezra.htm
=> He was an optimist.
About Robert Browning http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books/164c/robro.htm
=> He had deep Hebraic interests.
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Originally Posted by Flora And would you please answer my other questions of the second stanza above? I have little questions on the first stanza now. |
Sorry, Flora, but we try not to do homework assignments.
