Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Relationship Poetry
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- Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 'I love thee'
- Anaphora - repeated 9 times in poem
- Listing all of the ways that she loves him
- 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!'
- Hypophora - answers own question
- 'Sun and candlelight'
- Loves him in both day & night - constantly
- 'freely' 'purely'
- Loves him willingly, their love is pure and innocent
- 'breath, smiles, tears'
- Asyndetic listing - loves him with all her senses
- 'all my life!'
- Hyperbolic - emphasises her love
- Religious allegories
- 'Being' 'Grace' 'Praise' 'faith' 'Saints' 'God'
- Inference of loving & elevating him higher than religion
- Religion was very important in Victorian era
- 'I love thee with the love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints'
- Raised above religion, but also lost friends/family
- Disapproving father
- Raised above religion, but also lost friends/family
- Comparing their love to the vast love of God
- Published 1850 - Victorian era
- Prominent at the time for presenting love from a womens prespective
- Eloped against her father's will after poem was written
- 'I shall but love thee better after death'
- Their love is eternal - not stopped by death
- She was ill for a large amount of her life
- 'Depth and breadth and height'
- Polysyndetic listing - her love is infinite and immeasurable
- 'childhood's faith'
- Innocent love
- Poem has no sense of setting - she is lost in her thoughts & emotions
- 'My soul can reach'
- Abstract noun - abstract qualities becoming personified
- Loves him with all her soul
- Petrachan Sonnet form
- 14 lines, abba, abba, cd, cd, cd, octet then sestet
- Sonnet 43 of 44, never intended to be published but encouraged by husband
- 'Sonnets From The Portuguese', attempt to remove personal nature
- 'My little Portuguese' was Robert Browning's nickname for her
- Although the poem is expressing their perfect love, she doesn't try to achieve a perfect sonnet form
- 'I love thee'
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