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Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra," lines 124-25. (Robert Browning)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19930101
Author:Nolan, Edward F.
The editorial recommendation to add 'I' and 'they' to lines 124 and 125 respectively of Robert Browning's 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' serves to contradict the message of the poem. As the words 'arraigned' and 'disdained' are passive participles that are in essence nominative absolutes. Browning seemed to have intended the poem to be read as is to seek confirmation from the reader regarding his statement.
Be there, for once and all, 121 Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, 124 Were they, my soul disdained, 125 Right? Let age speak the ...
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