Skip to main content

Poem 2 - How do I love thee? - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

About the Poet:

                 Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) was one of the most popular and highly regarded poets of the Victorian era. Her talent for writing was evident from a tender age. Although she was always in ill health throughout her life, her literary output was prolific. The respect for her work was such that she was considered for the position of Poet Laureate. The poet Robert Browning greatly admired her work and courted her. They married and moved to Italy, where she spent the rest of her life. She is best remembered for the poem How do I love thee? and the verse novel Aurora Leigh. 

About the Poem:

'How Do I Love Thee' is a famous love poem and was first published in a collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese in 1850. The poem deals with the speaker's passionate adoration of her beloved with vivid pictures of her eternal bond that will keep her connected to her beloved even after death.

SUMMARY

As this poem is about love, the speaker counts how she adores her beloved. To her, love is a powerful force that can conquer everything in the universe. As an epitome of her expression of love, she details the ways how her love will get stronger with every passing phase of life. At the outset, she attempts to discuss the depth of her passion by drawing analogies between her love and religious and political ideals. Later, she expresses the unique quality of her enduring love when she says that her love will get better after death.
Also known as ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee?’ was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a great poet of the Victorian era. ‘How Do I Love Thee’ is a famous love poem and was first published in a collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese in 1850. The poem deals with the speaker’s passionate adoration of her beloved with vivid pictures of her eternal bond that will keep her connected to her beloved even after death.
 Love and faith are the major themes filling this poem. The poem is primarily concerned with the love of the speaker with her significant other. She expresses her deep and innocent love in captivating ways. Also, to show the intensity of love she feels, she details how her love will eventually get stronger with time.

Video Lecture Links:
https://youtu.be/zC4MAsFaWiQ

Contents 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unit I: Internet e-commerce Business Models

Electronic commerce: Electronic commerce better known as e-commerce consists of the buying or selling of  products  via electronic means such as the  internet  or other electronic services. This type of  trade  has been growing rapidly because of the expansion of the Internet. The need for electronic commerce emerged from the need to use computers more efficiently in banks and corporations. With the increasing competition, there was a need amongst organizations to increase customer satisfaction and information exchange. Electronic commerce started with the introduction of electronic funds transfer (EFT) by banks. Over time many variants of EFTs within banks were introduced like  debit cards ,  credit card s and direct deposits. Business model: A business model describes the  rationale  of how an  organization  creates, delivers, and captures  value , in economic, social, cultural or ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Poem 1 - On His Blindness - by John Milton (Sem IV)

John Milton ’s poem “On His Blindness” is an autobiographical sonnet in which Milton meditates on his own loss of sight. For most of his life, Milton had been able to see perfectly, but his late-night reading and writing on behalf of the government of the short-lived English Republic, in which he held a very prominent position, helped ruin his eyesight. This sonnet—written in the “Petrarchan” rhyme scheme associated with the fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarca—is divided into an eight-line “octave” and a six-line “sestet.” The octave rhymes  abba abba . The sestet rhymes  cde cde . The sonnet is, therefore, a typical Petrarchan sonnet in form, but in subject matter, the poem departs from the topics usually associated with Petrarchan poems. Petrarch (the English version of Petrarca’s name) was most famous for writing about love; Milton departs from that conventional topic to deal with a very practical, very physical problem, but a problem with many broa...
Post a Comment
Read more

Unit I

A web browser, or simply "browser," is an  application  used to access and view  websites . Common web browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari. The primary function of a web browser is to render  HTML , the code used to design or "mark up"  webpages . Each time a the browser loads a web page, it processes the HTML, which may include text,  links , and references to images and other items, such as  cascading style sheets  and  JavaScript  functions. The browser processes these items then renders them in the browser window. 1.1 Web Browsing: History of web Browsers, Basic Functions of Web Browser, and Types of Web Browsers Within the realm of computing, web browsing history is the list of  web pages  a user has visited recently, as well as associated data such as page title and time of visit, which is recorded by  web browser  software as standard fo...
Post a Comment
Read more