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Sonnet 42 “How Do I Love Thee?”

Sonnet 42 “How Do I Love Thee?”. Born in 1806 in England, Elizabeth was born into an affluent family who owned sugarcane plantations in Jamaica . by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After a secret courtship, she married the successful British poet Robert Browning in 1846.

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Sonnet 42 “How Do I Love Thee?”

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  1. Sonnet 42“How Do I Love Thee?” Born in 1806 in England, Elizabeth was born into an affluent family who owned sugarcane plantations in Jamaica . by Elizabeth Barrett Browning After a secret courtship, she married the successful British poet Robert Browning in 1846.

  2. How do I love thee? Le t me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Her sonnet uses the Italian format with a rhyming pattern of an octet and sestet making up the 14 lines. She uses assonance with “depth” and “breadth”; “reach” and “feeling”; and, “being” and “ideal” for overall euphonious effect.

  3. I love thee to the level of every day’sMost quiet need, by sun and candlelight.I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. She repeats “I love thee” to emphasize her feelings. She uses a simile to compare her love to the acts of noble men.

  4. I love theee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith;I love thee with a love I seemed to lose She uses sound devices, such as alliteration, to add an elegant nature of the poem. An invalid and six years older than Robert Browning, she doubted his love for her.

  5. With my lost saints, —I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death. With the dash, she emphasizes her feelings, breaking up the formality with a verbal outburst of simple words. Much of her poetry has religious themes, after being inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno. She died in 1861, in her husband’s arms. Browning said she died “smilingly, with the face of a girl’s”. Her last word was—”Beautiful”.

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