Sonnet 43 Flashcards
(5 cards)
Power of love quotes sonnet 43
“How do i love thee” rhetorical
“Let me count the ways” listing = numerous
“To the depth and breadth and height” triadic structure
“My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight” interconnected imagery
“I love thee” repetition
“By sun and candlelight” imagery, light love = bright, eternal love
“I love thee freely, as men strive for Right” dad not approving = love stronger
“Smiles, tears, of all my life” triadic structure, exclamatory phrase
Religion quotes sonnet 43
Semantic field
“Soul” “Being” “Grace” “purely” “Praise” “faith” “saints” “God” “better after death”
No belief to real God, husband becomes her God?
“My soul can reach”
“Ends of Being and ideal Grace”
“Purely, as they turn from praise”
“In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith”
“With my lost saints” loss of faith
“And if God choose, I shall love thee better after death” who is God?, Illness
Time quotes sonnet 43
“To the depth and breadth and height” triadic structure
“Let me count the ways” numerous ways
“I love thee” repetition
“By sun and candlelight” imagery = eternal
“With the passion In my old griefs”
“With my childhood’s faith”
“Smile, tears, of all my life!”
“I shall love thee better after death”
Form and structure sonnet 43
Sonnet form = not perfect = complexity of love
Iambic pentameter = heart beat = typical love poem = heart beats for him
Length of sonnet but doesn’t follow sonnet properly + rhyming couplets but not proper rhyme scheme = reflection of relationship, unconventional but close with unity
Poet sonnet 43
Elizabeth barret browning
