Sonnet 43 Analysis - 1483 Words

‘Sonnet 43’ is a romantic poem, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the poem she is trying to describe the abstract feeling of love by measuring how much her love means to her. She also expresses all the different ways of loving someone and she tells us about her thoughts around her beloved. The tone of the poem is deep, in a loving way. The poet starts of by saying â€Å"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,† by which she starts of with a rhetorical question, because there is no ‘reason’ for love. Rather than using â€Å"why† she enforces this meaning. But then she goes on saying that she will count the ways, which is a contradiction against her first line. In the rest of the poem she is explaining how much she loves. In the second line†¦show more content†¦That she could finally pay him back for all the things he did for her, by giving him her life, for eternity. Not only that, but she creates the image of their love, being infinite, that it will continue even after death tears them apart. Also, by mentioning Gods choice she increases the importance of their love. When the poet mentions â€Å"With my lost Saints† she is referring to those people in her life that she trusted and loved, which in the end, betrayed her. When she says â€Å"Saints† she is referring to the glorification she put on them, how much she trusted them increasing the power of their betrayal. By using this in a poem about love she makes the reader think that the person writing this is not naà ¯ve, that she is able to ask questions and not let everything pass her by. She is saying that people have betrayed her before, and that she has learned from her mistakes and that she is one hundred percent sure that he will not betray her, that he is ‘The one’. Earlier on, Barrett Browning says â€Å"I love thee purely† meaning that there is no distrust, no judgment in their love. 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