Andrea Del Sarto: A Statement Worthy Of Examination
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The bittersweet poem Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning is the
story of a painter who, with un-Godly amounts of talent, never fulfills his
potential in becoming a great, prolific painter, in the exalted ranks of
Raphael. Browning attributes this to del Sarto’s wife, as is the case with
most wo ....
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.... can be used to generalize a broad range of artists,
first the lines must be thoroughly understood. Several themes can be
inferred from these relatively simple lines. They seem straightforward
enough, yet contain deeper, more specific meaning. First of course, the
pessimistic mood of the statement must be identified. For to understand
the implications of the quote, the pessimism needs to be understood.
Browning is writing from the point of view of del Sarto, a severely
depressed painter, y ....
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