snaith//Sonnet 43 By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Sonnet 43
- Content
- She is expressing her intense love for Robert Browning
- She fell in love with Robert Browning and she wrote this poem to express her love fore him.
- Browning 'count[s]' the ways that she loves him
- 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'
- She is expressing her intense love for Robert Browning
- Social Context
- Her own love
- She fell in love with Robert Browning and she wrote this poem to express her love fore him.
- Browning suffered from a life-long illness
- Meaning she may want to express the love she feels without wasting any time.
- Her own love
- Mood and Emotion
- Loving
- eternal
- 'I shall but love thee better after death'
- Religious
- 'with a love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints'
- 'And, if God choose'
- She questions her faith as she may believe God can bring the two together in the afterlife
- personal
- 'I love thee'
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Browning is telling her lover how she feels, meaning the tone is very soft and personal.
- 'I love thee'
- Browning is telling her lover how she feels, meaning the tone is very soft and personal.
- Attitude
- Browning presents the idea of love as powerful and all-encompassing
- 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height'
- Browning is implying that, no matter what, she will love him because all of her loves him
- 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height'
- Her love enables her to reach otherwise impossible extremes
- 'For the ends of Being and ideal Grace'
- 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height'
- Browning is implying that, no matter what, she will love him because all of her loves him
- Browning presents the idea of love as powerful and all-encompassing
- Language
- Triplet
- 'depth and breadth and height'
- assonance
- 'Praise' and 'faith'
- Unusual because the poem is about perfect love, however, the rhyme scheme is not so perfect
- 'Praise' and 'faith'
- repetition
- 'I love thee' x8
- punctuation
- implies passion on the end of lines
- Rhetorical Question
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Implies that Browning is talking to her lover
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Triplet
- Content
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