Sonnet 43

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote 44 sonnets for her husband, the poet Robert Browning. Her father discouraged his children from marrying, so ebb out kept their relationship a clandestine. In Lady Geraldines Courtship, she had handstioned Brownings poem, Pomegranate. Browning then wrote to her telling her that he admired her poetry and that he hunch forwardd her. They corresponded in secret and eloped and married in 1845. This poem expresses EBBs admire for Robert Browning.

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I mania thee? Let me opine the ways.
I love thee to the reason and width and extremum
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the Ends of Being and warning Grace.
I love thee to the level of everydays
Most static need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love the purely, as they unit of ammunition from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old(a) griefs, and with my childhoods faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints! I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my vitality! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

An Over-Analysis of Sonnet XLIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Claire Wong

pull back 1: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.




EBB wishes to express the ways she loves Robert Browning, how she loves him and he reasons she loves him. This is a rhetorical question. No one is expected to answer it, only herself.

disceptation 2: I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
She loves him to such(prenominal) a great extent that her love may be said to have a large volume; it occupies so much intensity. This line is expressive and dramatic. In another context, depth may indicate the depth and sincerity of her feelings; they are not shallow. This is only a mere speculation. The large depth, breadth and height symbolize the magnitude of her love. Height may indicate something howling(a) perhaps she feels better and more spiritual by engaging Robert.

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