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
- Browning is expressing the intensity of love she feels for her husband, despite the barriers their relationship faced
- 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
- Browning presents a spiritual, idealised, devoted sort of love
- 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
- Title
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