I read a poem the title is How do I love thee. It’s written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She born in Durham, England, was the oldest of twelve children and daughter of a strict father, Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, who owned sugar plantations in Jamaica. When fifteen, Elizabeth suffered a spinal injury caused by saddling a pony, and became addicted to pain relievers. Being weak, she was sent with her brother Edward to the sea of Torquay, where her brother drowned to death, causing her to be emotionally broken. All the while she had been deep in reading and writing poetry, and she had published some anonymous works which received much unexpected praise. She continued to write, despite her depressed state, but refused to leave her house for the next five years. During this time, she produced a collection known as Poems, which caught the eye of a poet who she had mentioned in her poems, Robert Browning.
She shares her feeling honestly, and openly. The Tone of this poem is passionate, idealistic, blissful, humorous, calm, intimate and loving. She expressed how deeply she loves her husband.
The rhyme scheme of sonnet 43 is as follows lines 1 to 8 ABBA, ABBA. Line 9 to 14, CD, CD, CD. The octave draws s analogies between the poet’s love and religious and political ideals. The sestet draws analogies between the intensity of love she felt while writing the poem and the intensity of she experienced earlier in her life.
This poem is written for the author’s husband Robert Browning. It’s for all to the man she loved. That’s why we could see how much she loved him. Actually she doesn’t want to make public this poem because she thought it’s just her personal feeling. But she made it public because of her husband’s persuasion.
I love thee with a passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. The message is delivered successfully. We don’t know she got hurts many times before or she haves a sad passion for love, but we could know that she will love her partner as a pure love as a childhood’s faith. Through this poem we could know how really she loves her partner. She wrote it honestly so we could feel the love well.