Masters Reading Response to R. Browning's "Two in the Campagna"

This poem uses Italy as a setting immediately with the line:

"I wonder do you feel to-day
         As I have felt since, hand in hand,
We sat down on the grass, to stray
         In spirit better through the land,
This morn of Rome and May?"

Rome in this sense is a strengthener for people's spirits. It is somewhere to go that will help you figure out something about yourself that will aid you in the strengthening of your spirit. It is like the Triggering Town piece that Dr. Davidson assigned for our class to read: Italy (in Browning's case Rome) is the triggering subject that his speaker is discussing, but in the end there is a found subject, or discovered subject that reveals something about the speaker: in this case it reveals a part of the speaker that he wishes he could change and be more like the one he loves.