Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Key Quotes
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Direct and personal question. However without direct address makes it universal.
- 'Let me count the ways.'
- As the poem progresses it explores how. Sounds methodical and intense.
- 'Depth and breath and height'
- Shows the scale of her love. shows her excitement and passion.
- 'Smiles, tears'
- Mixture of positive and negative emotions. Shows she loves him with everything she has.
- 'I shall but love thee better after death'
- Love is presented as eternal, and that it will outlive both their lives on Earth.
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Context
- She was married to poet and playwriter Robert Browning.
- Private expression of her love for him.
- Their relationship was a secret at first.
- Conveys a more spiritual and devotional love.
- Themes
- Love and Relationship
- Hyperbolic expression, sense of vastness to contrast with the intimate nature.
- Love on both a large scale and a small scale.
- Mixes positive and negative emotions. Contribute to her love.
- Feelings and experiences are what make her devotion so strong.
- Faith and worship
- Shows that her faith is important to her.
- Religious faith comes naturally to her. It impacts how she thinks and her devotion to her love.
- The link between religious faith and romantic love makes them seem similar.
- She hopes that God will support their love.
- Love and Relationship
- Links to other poems
- The Manhunt
- She walks in beauty
- Also
- Strict , regular form.
- Cozy Apologia
- Valentine
- A Wife in London
- Afternoons
- The Soldier
- Living Space
- Hawk Roosting
- A first person voice reveals the narrator feelings or emotions.
- To Autumn
- The Prelude
- A first person voice reveals the narrators feelings or emotions.
- Key Quotes
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