Sonnet 43

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  • Sonnet 43
    • Title
      • Doesn't have a specific title
      • Part of Browning's sonnets for the portuguese
      • Sonnet form is used as an expression of love, traditionally by male poets
    • What's It About?
      • Browning is expressing the intensity of love she feels for her husband, despite the barriers their relationship faced
        • Is she defined by this love?
      • Poem is a declaration of love, e.g. wedding ceremonies
      • Love is equated with the search for spiritual goodness, which is beyong human understanding
      • Explored the personal / emotional aspects of love, conveyed through her own experiences
      • Love is portrayed with the ability to renew the past and to last even beyond death
    • Ideas + Imagery
      • Browning presents a spiritual, idealised, devoted sort of love
        • I' love thee ... and ideal grace'
      • Browning presents love as a form of rediscovery or rebirth
        • 'with my childhood's faith
      • Browning conveys her love as natural and genuine rather than egotistical or vain
        • 'I love thee .. quiet need'
      • Browning shows love is physical, emotional and spiritual
        • 'I love ... my life'
      • contrasts
        • day - night
        • experience - innocence
      • Simple, domestic imagery
    • Rhythm, Repetition + Rhyme
      • poem is written in iambic pentameter (secure and steadfast)
      • 'I love thee' is used multiple times
        • Reflects the devotion the poet feels for her lovers + the persistent nature of that love
      • Only uses four rhymes: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
        • Reflects the purity of the feelings expressed
    • Language
      • Spiritual + moral elements of love are emphasises through the use of capital letters on concepts, e.g. 'Ideal Grace'
      • Positive advervs, e.g. 'purely' / 'freely', emphasise the goo nature of love, which she feels genuinly and willingly
      • ! in poem convey enthusiastic / passionate feelings Browning is experiency
      • Browning frequently uses oppositions, e.g. 'depth & breadth & height', to show the far reaching nature of love
      • metaphysical metaphor
        • gift of salvation
      • spatial metaphor
        • 3D substance being filled
      • Intro is a question
        • Love is difficult to define - Browning hopes to answer a perplexing question
    • Structure
      • Petrarchan Sonnet
      • 14 lines
      • Octave and sestet
        • Intense religious elements (S)
        • rhyme changes (S)
    • Themes
      • Love
      • Spirituality
      • Identity

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