Can someone explain this quote to me?

[Rani G2]

I'm having a question about a quote I once came across in a film called "Anon". I pretty much got fascinated by this quote but I am unable to grasp it fully. I checked in the internet but not much Info was given.


It goes like this:

I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.

• Robert Browning

Any bright mind is able to explain this to me?

Thanks

Purusha

 

[ILoveLife]

Might entail suicide, as in "let there be an end", and as a sin, being "forgotten by God".

 

[Rani G2]

Thanks Sietz...a thing to think about..
:-)

 

[Tinyflame]

Well not a bright mind @PURUSHA , but if I had to venture a guess off the top of my hat, I would say the rest that comes from no expectation; that is, knowing that being 'forgotten by God' means nothing is expected (of us), since that expectation means serving others; a rest, a reprieve. Then return to life.

But even guessing would depend on the context, or any other verses; could be very sad and expressing that despair; overwhelmed; pressured.

(I was never good at poetry!)

 

[Rani G2]

that is, knowing that being 'forgotten by God' means nothing is expected (of us), since that expectation means serving others; a rest, a reprieve. Then return to lif

Like your words Junebug.. Thank you very much

 

[Tinyflame]

I didn't google it first for a hint @PURUSHA - I probably should have. :) :hug:

 

[shatter eyes]

I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning

This is about SHAME.
The character wants to validate her existence as lost soul by wanting to be nothingness (a soul lost from all that privacy can could not hide; her shame. It is just a nook bound to be intruded). Her sense of self and safety is in this nothingness of becoming a lost soul that can be no longer be lost once forgotten by God. Freedom of becoming nothing she becomes everything without shame.

 

[Friday]

I know the actual context of Browning’s poem... but the thing about poetry? Is that in one of its best forms, it’s a mirror. Showing you yourself, rather than the poet.

Fact is universal. It’s just a thing that is, and applies the same way to all. Truth is far more fluid, and becomes so highly individual, that no 2 people’s truths will ever line up exactly.

Some of the most beloved poetry (like this one, by Browning) is argued over constantly / endlessly debated, because it rings true for so many people, in so many different ways.

 

[Ronin]

They didn’t sell f*ck Off Tshirts in Browning’s time, so he had to resort to a poem.

... No, in seriousness, it is a poem, the meaning is yours to find.

 

[Rani G2]

because it rings true for so many people, in so many different ways.

Yes Friday... !

 

[hithere]

I thought it had to with unrequited love and that horrible feeling and you just want the pining the lost-ness the pain to be over, just a break, a place to hide and rest, don't make any demands on me. Kind of like hiding to lick wounds... (that was my take on it anyway)

 

[grit]

The beauty of art...could be anything. Because u mentioned Anon I thought the end of Privacy. Privacy is dead!