How Do I Love Thee?
How do I love thee? By Elizabeth Browning
The poem, "How do I love thee" is a passionate affirmation of love from Elizabeth to her lover Robert Browning. In this poem, Elizabeth declares her spiritual and pure love for Robert and describes the many ways in which she feels for him, and therefore defines her love. On the poem she express three different ideas of love which are the depth of her love, an attempt to describe the indescribable and the comparison to known feelings and interactions.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in England in 1806. In 1821 she injured her spine as a result of a fall and in 1838, after her brother died in 1838 she apparently became a permanent invalid. She spent the majority of her time in her room writing poetry. In 1844, Robert Browning wrote to Elizabeth admiring her Poems. He continued to write to her and they were engaged in 1845. Her parents disapproved her relationship with Robert Browning, so after 20 months of correspondence and secret......
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