How do I love thee?

Essay 1
How is the sonnet a good example of Victorian literature? How
the themes and ideas are expressed representative of women at
Victorian times? Write an essay quoting the lines you need to
support the themes. Write about 500 words.

How do I love thee is a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and a clear example of Victorian literature , for its
theme, love, which was a recurrent idea by then, mainly in women
writing, and for its hidden religious view and the way in which
the author tries to measure and count everything, How do I
love thee? Let me count the ways. With this type of phrases
the author creates in readers a sense of rigidity proper of this
period.
Anaphora, as well as alliteration, is present in many of the
lines, I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. The
constant repetition of the phrase I love thee throughout the
lines of the poem builds rhythm while reinforcing the theme, and
in many of the times in which this is said the author wrote an
alliteration to make the poem more easy going.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose, with my lost
sciints, I love thee the breadth. Here theres an obvious
connotation with Barrets life: as well as it happened to her, in
this line when the sonnets getting sentimental reality, that is to
say everything thats countable, touchable, crushes it; which is
similar to what happened to Barret; when she fell in love with
Robert Browning her father wouldnt let her marry him.
All these elements, though they may sound tough and odd to
contemporary readers, were common at the time; women were at
home all day, it wasnt common for them to work and they
werent allowed to study, all these created an atmosphere of
jealousy and condone around women literature. With all these up
and downs, Barret created a piece of writing representative of
all women at the time, of how they were oppressed, of how they
had to fight for the rights they deserved.

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Juan Pedro Alonso