ELIZABETH BARRETT

Elizabeth Barrett was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England, the eldest of 12 children of Edward Moulton Barrett. She was born in the date of 6th march 1806 Her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, made most of his greatwealth from Jamaican sugar plantations, and in 1809 he bought Hope End. She was educated at home and joined lessons with her brothers' tutor. Elizabeth have a great esteem towards her father, Elizabeth wrote her first poem in the age of 8 on the tile of "On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man" most of her time she spend in her room writing her own creation of poems. In 1850, Elizabeth's best known book of poems was published Sonnets from the Portuguese. They are not translations, but a structure of 44 sonnets recording the growth of her love for Robert, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning is Elizabeths beloved husband and her marriage was a love marriage. Elizabeth's poems have a diction and rhythm suggesting an attractive, spontaneous though some may seem sentimental. Many of her poems protest what she considered unjust social conditions. She also wrote poems appealing for political freedom for Italy and other countries controlled by foreign nations. Her poor health gave her ample opportunity to devote all her time to reading and writing. She married to Robert Browning, In 1849, they had a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning. She hasachieved writing a lot of poetry and short storiesElizabeth Barret Browning penned some of the world's greatest and most famous love poems. This analysis of "How do I Love Thee" takes a look at her most famous. In 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died at the age of 55 on Robert Wiedmanbarrett Brownings arm peacefully. She was buried in Florence. Before she passed away she do suffer in few illness.

The picture above shows a Portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. During her life time her poetry were very famous.

ANALYSIS

This is a lovely poem. It neednt be complicated nor dwell on the hardships of love, but its power to bind us together and its overwhelming greatness. It speaks of devotion and affection in it most purest form. In her sonnet Mrs. Browning is expressing her unconditional love for her husband and God. The overall theme of the poem is intense love, it is also an Italian sonnet, and a lyric poem. Lyric poems are poems that have a lot of emotion, sparks your imagination, and has a melody, rather like a song.

She explains that her love is so tremendous that she would have to count the number of ways she loves and the way she loves is so abundant. In her second sentence I love thee to the depth and breadth and height, her love is real and three dimensional. When she says breadth she is really saying width, the measurement of her love. When she says height and depth she is talking about how far down and how far across her love is.

She loves him with the intensity one feels love during their innocence of youth, which she lost with her innocence, and feels it again for him.She loves him just as intensely as men fighting for freedom love freedom. Her love is unadulterated by any ulterior motive or hardened by the experiences of her adult life. She loves him with the blind faith of a child. He has revived her spirit in the way that she has again begun to reaffirm her belief in saints and all things holy. This was something she had lost while growing up and Robert has brought it back. He is her savior and the centre around which her world revolves. There is excitement and passion and spontaneity in her love that are all ingredients that make for a very healthy relationship.

LITERAL DEVICES
Line 1: The speaker begins by posing a question that the entire sonnet will go on to answer: "How do I love thee?" This is not really a rhetorical question, because the speaker does answer it, but it operates in a similar way to rhetorical questions because it introduces the poem and gets the reader thinking. Lines 2-4: The speaker uses a spatial metaphor to describe the extent of her love, comparing her soul to a physical, three-dimensional object in the world. These three lines also introduce a lot of sound play into the sonnet. In line two, three words have a "th" sound, and a fourth word ("height") comes close. In fact, throughout the poem there's an excess of "th" sounds, some of them voiced (like the "th" in "thee") and some of them unvoiced (like the "th" in "depth"). In lines three and four, the poet uses assonance, repeating long "e" vowel sounds in words like "reach," "feeling," "Being," and "ideal." This repeated long vowel sound adds a brighter, livelier quality to the poem. It also reminds us of what the speaker calls the beloved "thee." Lines 5-6: These are some of the only lines in this poem that actually use concrete imagery "sun and candle-light" and even then, it's only images of different kinds of light, not necessarily definite objects. Even more so than other poems, this is an extremely abstract, unclear lyric that seems to take place out of this world. Lines 7-9: These lines use anaphora, beginning with the same phrase, "I love thee," as do lines two, five, and eleven. This parallel structure emphasizes that the poem is in many ways a catalog or list of ways of loving, rather than an extended argument or scene like some other poems. Lines 12-14: We can't help but think that claiming you're going to love someone "better after death," whether it's your death or their own, is something of a hyperbole.

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