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
      • 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

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