Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Browning
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- Sonnet 43
- Elizabeth Browning
- Structure & Form
- Uses 14 lines (Sonnet)
- Originated in Sicily and is typically used in a love poem
- Uses Iambic Pentameter
- Normally found in love poems and represents human emotion
- Uses 14 lines (Sonnet)
- Context
- Robert Browning
- Husband to Elizabeth
- Major influence in her work
- Sonnet 43 is addressed to him
- Elizabeth Browning
- A prominent Victorian Poet
- Suffered from a lifelong illness
- wrote 44 sonnets personal to her - which sonnet 43 is part of
- Was lonely until she met her husband at age 40
- Robert Browning
- Beginning
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Question and answer structure is established with the rhetorical question (an example of hypophora)
- 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/My soul can reach'
- a systematic field of measurement demonstrates how she is trying to measure her love. With the personification of her soul making it sound painful
- 'How do I love thee?'
- Middle
- 'I love thee ...'
- Repetition suggest weakness in communication as the speaker is limited in total in the terms of communication because she is overwhelmed by her love
- 'I love thee ...'
- End
- 'With my lost saints'
- Refers to the people she has lost in her her life. Also suggest hope and optimism that they will return and meet her again
- 'if God choose,/I shall but love thee better after death.'
- The subordinating conjunction 'if' suggest possibility and dependency showing that God has the final say in their relationship
- The adjective 'better' suggest that her love will strengthen even more when they reunite in heaven - showing eternal love
- 'With my lost saints'
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