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Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the sonnet "How Do I Love Thee" for her husband Robert Browning to express her pure and unending love. Her own difficult life experiences, including illnesses and a spinal injury, gave her strength and perspective to appreciate life's beauty. The sonnet uses poetic devices like rhyme, imagery and simile to portray a theme of eternal love through emotionally compelling language. It follows the traditional structure of a Petrarchan sonnet through its fourteen lines divided into an octave and sestet with an abba abba cdcdcd rhyme scheme.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the sonnet "How Do I Love Thee" for her husband Robert Browning to express her pure and unending love. Her own difficult life experiences, including illnesses and a spinal injury, gave her strength and perspective to appreciate life's beauty. The sonnet uses poetic devices like rhyme, imagery and simile to portray a theme of eternal love through emotionally compelling language. It follows the traditional structure of a Petrarchan sonnet through its fourteen lines divided into an octave and sestet with an abba abba cdcdcd rhyme scheme.

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Poem analysis

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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1. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life experiences influence her
compositions particularly in writing Sonnet 43?

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning born on March 6, 1806, at Coxhoe Hall,


Durham, England. She was the oldest of 12 children and her family made a
living from Jamaican sugar plantations, because of this she was born a
middle class in the society. But even with this silver platter given to her, life
tends to mess with you, at the age of 14 she was diagnose with lung illness
that required her to take morphine for the rest of her life, and the following
year, she suffered a spinal injury that would serve as another setback.
Despite her health issues, Barrett lived the literary life to the fullest She
campaigned for the end of slavery, and wrote prolifically from 1841 to 1844
about social issues and the aesthetics of poetry. In 1844 the book "Poems"
had great success.
Even though life has been harsh on Elizabeth she still found away to enjoy it to
it’s fullest which gave her the strength and will to move forward eventually
leading her to the arms of her beloved truly inspiring the poem How Do I Love
Thee? (Sonnet 43). It was her strength determination and tribulations she has to
faced allowed her to grow and define her view point on the world

2. How was she able to express her pure and unending love to Robert Browning?
 Each line and word she used is filled with love and compassion, enough for
us to even felt it our selves. Her way of composing the poem is truly
magnificent you can see the amount of details. And attention she had while
writing the poem following every principle.

3. How can the lines of Sonnet 43 be interpreted and analyzed using various
figurative language, literary
 She has composed a poem so magnificent that its still being studied
appreciate and analyze to this day. This can be broken down into:
Theme: it is quite obvious that the theme for How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) is
about unending love
Tone; the mood and emotion portrayed in the poem is loved tranquility and
compassion
Rhyme: the way she wrote every word and line is quite pleasant to listen to it each
one of it meld harmoniously the pattern in which every syllable is placed out
allows it to be read clearly.

Literary Devices
In ‘Sonnet 43,’ Browning makes use of several literary devices. These include but
are not limited to imagery, simile, and alliteration. The first of these is one of the
most impactful literary devices that a poet can use. It can be seen through the
poet’s ability to create images that appeal to or activate the reader’s sense.
Structure and Form
‘Sonnet 43’ is classified as a sonnet because it contains fourteen lines of poetry and
has a fixed rhyme scheme of abba abba cdcdcd. This is the traditional pattern of a
Petrarchan sonnet. The poem also makes use of the usual metrical pattern
associated with standard sonnet forms, that is, iambic pentameter. this means
that each line contains five sets of two beats. The first of these is unstressed
and the second is stressed.
4. Are you going to give this sonnet to the one you love at present?
 Yes, absolutely, because it could be a medium in expressing my feelings to
my beloved.
5. Will you be willing to receive this sonnet if your partner would give it to
you? Why?
Yes, how could I not?, How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) is a beautifully
composed poem that convey the feelings of thy person to their beloved, though it
would be nicer if my beloved write me a poem themselves it doesn’t has to be
good as long as I can truly feel the love and effort put into it.

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