The Bishop Orders his Tomb

The poem was first published in 1845, throughout the poem Browning dislikes the Bishop in the poem and reveals his meanness of mind, selfishness, materialistic outlook, above all hypocrisy. Bishop is the narrator of the poem and his words bring his ill traits of character to light.
The first line of this poem is a Biblical quotation.

This poem is about a dying bishop who envied the bishop before 'Gandolf'.

Throughout the poem Browning muddles up the poem, because he includes the bishops wife as well as Gandolf.

I personally didn't like this poem as it was very muddled and not clear of what Browning was trying to achieve when writing this poem. Also Browning could of made the poem allot shorter however the reason why this dramatic monologue is rather longer then the rest of his poems is because he has included a lot of description.