Let Me Count The Way By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Deep Is Love?
Passion and love are contained within the heart. This exemplifies the declaration of love written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” is a poem including rhyme and sentimental meaning. This sonnet, in iambic pentameter, portrays the love that Browning felt for her husband and how that love will never be destroyed by any power. Answering the simple question, “how do I love thee?” sets the basis of the poem.
The narrator of the poem is that of first person. This helps draw the reader in and feel the same deep love that is expressed. Powerful emotions emerge from within this classic poem of love as stated in Stade’s opinion, “Barrett Browning’s sonnets address love from a woman 's point of view and in a woman 's voice. Further, the poems exuberantly affirm the love between a man and a woman and include the familiar poem that begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
The title shows the numbers of ways that Browning loves her husband, so many ways in fact that she must count them for the world. The poetess focuses on the reality of her love and its broadening outreach. The mood of the poem is open and happy. Browning uses anaphora as she repeats the sounds found in …show more content…
"Sonnets from the Portuguese." MagillOnLiterature Plus. Salem Press, Mar. 1995. Web. 16 June 2013.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways." The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin 's, 2002. 1243. Print.
Stade, George, and Karen Karbiener. "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett." Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, (2009): n. page. Bloom 's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 16 June 2013.
Taylor, Beverly. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Women Poets. Vol. 199. Chapel Hill: Gale Group, 1999. 79-99. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Web. 16 June
Passion and love are contained within the heart. This exemplifies the declaration of love written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” is a poem including rhyme and sentimental meaning. This sonnet, in iambic pentameter, portrays the love that Browning felt for her husband and how that love will never be destroyed by any power. Answering the simple question, “how do I love thee?” sets the basis of the poem.
The narrator of the poem is that of first person. This helps draw the reader in and feel the same deep love that is expressed. Powerful emotions emerge from within this classic poem of love as stated in Stade’s opinion, “Barrett Browning’s sonnets address love from a woman 's point of view and in a woman 's voice. Further, the poems exuberantly affirm the love between a man and a woman and include the familiar poem that begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
The title shows the numbers of ways that Browning loves her husband, so many ways in fact that she must count them for the world. The poetess focuses on the reality of her love and its broadening outreach. The mood of the poem is open and happy. Browning uses anaphora as she repeats the sounds found in …show more content…
"Sonnets from the Portuguese." MagillOnLiterature Plus. Salem Press, Mar. 1995. Web. 16 June 2013.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways." The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin 's, 2002. 1243. Print.
Stade, George, and Karen Karbiener. "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett." Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, (2009): n. page. Bloom 's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 16 June 2013.
Taylor, Beverly. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Women Poets. Vol. 199. Chapel Hill: Gale Group, 1999. 79-99. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Web. 16 June