Sonnet 43 1850 *

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• published originally as a translation - Sonnets fromt he portugese, not actual translation was written by her
• ok for women to translate however nto to write
• eloped with her husband - broke societal convections, creative partnerhsip and love
• obsessed with her husabnd Robert Browning
• ill in youth - looked up to God to eleviate her suffering
• conventional structure for literature - antiquity, older tradition
• petriarchan sonnet, written in iambic pentameter with an ABBA ABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme

Question 2

paragraphs if named

Answer 2

• presents an exageratted love
• heavenly love
• transcendent of societal views

Question 3

poem to compare with

Answer 3

• valentine

Question 4

para ideas - love

Answer 4

against valnetine:
- both describe a passionate love
- however valentine more nuanced love, sonnet 43 glorifies love
- however valentine more relaistsic

Question 5

para 1

Answer 5

• “let me count the ways” plural
• “I love thee to the depth, breadth and height my soul can reach” - attempts to quantify her love for it to make snes sicne its so great, hyperbolic
• “passion put to use” all her passion is put towards her husband
• “i love thee”, anaphora making it important, true love, midn going in circles, can only focus on her love
• “-I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life-“, is givign her everthing to him, ceasura creating a pause, signifes importance
• “by sun and candelight”, day and night, constant love temporal
• enjambemtn usec thrughout

Question 6

para 2

Answer 6

• “for the ends of Being and ideal Grace”,
• “my childhood’s faith”, “I love thee with a love I seemed to loose”
• “my lost saints”
• “if God shoose I shall but loev thee better after death”

Question 7

para 3

Answer 7

• ””