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Sonnet 43

Sonnet 43. By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Do Now. In 3 minutes, list down 2 things: What is the first thing that came to your mind when you saw her picture? In one sentence, predict how her life was by your first impression?. Background Info.

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Sonnet 43

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  1. Sonnet 43 By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2. Do Now In 3 minutes, list down 2 things: What is the first thing that came to your mind when you saw her picture? In one sentence, predict how her life was by your first impression?

  3. Background Info • Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most famous poets during her time. • Born on March 6, 1806, in Durham, England. • Died on June 29, 1861, in Florence, Italy.

  4. Cultural and Social Explanation • Sonnet 43 was published during the Victorian Era. • Victorian Era (named after Queen Victoria- England): • period of time that enhanced peace, prosperity, sophisticated sensibilities, trustworthiness, and confidence. • Culturally, people moved toward romanticism with regards to religion, arts, and social values. • This historical and social context relate to the poem, because it was a peaceful time that stretched love and peace throughout the country

  5. Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! - I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight - I love thee freely, as men strive for Right, - I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion, put to use In my old griefs, ... and with my childhood's faith: I love thee with the love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints, - I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

  6. Vocabulary Words Breadth Definition: Wide range/amount or width. Grace Definition: Effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion; loveliness. Right Definition: Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality. Sonnet Definition: A 14-line poem. Usually written in iambic pentameter.

  7. Explanationlines( 1-4) • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. • I love thee to the depth and breadth and height • My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight • For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. • Elizabeth expresses her extreme love by saying, “My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight.” It shows us that her love and admiration is not something touchable or concrete but natural and even spiritual. When Elizabeth mentioned “height” and “breadth”, she is trying to explain how deep and wide her love is towards Robert.

  8. Explanationlines (4-5) • I love thee to the level of everyday'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light. • In these lines, similarly, Elizabeth expresses her great love towards Robert. She says that she loves him in a day-to-day way. Also, the writer uses some images like sun and candle-light. I believe that the sun refers to the powerful love. She also meant that she loves him in the day and at night.

  9. Explanationlines (6-7) • I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. • These two lines are other ways of how Elizabeth loves her husband. While men are looking for their rights in a free way, she loves her husband with her free heart. • When she says “ I love thee purely “, she means that her love towards him is pure that she refuses everyone else’s admiration. • We believe that she’s not seeking attention or praise when she talks about her love, but it’s just a way to express her love.

  10. Explanation lines (8-9) • I love thee with the passion put to use • In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. • She uses her passion, intensity, childhood faith, and the bitter feeling of her “old griefs” to love, and to express it in a special way. • Elizabeth puts all her power in her passionate love towards Robert. • In my opinion, on a scale of 1-10, she’s on number 10.

  11. Explanationlines (10-11) • I love thee with a love I seemed to lose • With my lost saints – • Take a moment and close your eyes, think of someone, anyone, who you had faith in and lost that faith. • For example, I used to have faith in a football player, who turned out to be selfish, arrogant, and disrespectful. • Anyways, imagine if you can take all that faith and put it in another place, in the heart of someone that you love. Wouldn’t that be amazing? • That’s exactly what she means, she took all the faith she had (then lost) and put it in her love towards her husband.

  12. Explanationlines (11-12) • I love thee with the breath • Smiles, tears, of all my life! – • Here, she says that she loves her husband with every breath she breathes, every smile she smiles, and every tear that drops from her eyes. • This shows that her love isn’t easy to forget, and isn’t easy to reach. Elizabeth doesn’t only love Robert in her happy moments, she even loves him in her sad and unemotional moments.

  13. Explanation lines (13-14) • And, if God choose, • I shall but love thee better after death. • In those specific lines, and my favorite lines from all the poem, she says that she’s still going to love him “after death”, even more than how she loves him now. • This shows us that her love is ENDLESS.

  14. Imagery • In line 1, she mentions words like “height” and “breadth”, which explains the wide range of her love towards her husband. • Also, she mentions words like “sun” and candle-light”, which expresses the endless love at day and night.

  15. Symbolism • Elizabeth says that she loves him with every breath, smiles, and tears. • This shows us that she loves him with every smile that crosses her face, which suggest that her gladness is always a presence of admiring him. • Also, she loves even if she was sad, with every breath that she breathes.

  16. Repetition + Rhyme Scheme • The author uses repetition in her poem by repeating “I love thee”. *It is used eight times in the poem to reinforce the meaning of how she’s devoted to her husband, Robert. • Every sonnet has fourteen lines. The rhyme scheme of this sonnet is ABBA-AABA-CDC-DCD.

  17. Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! - I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight - I love thee freely, as men strive for Right, - I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion, put to use In my old griefs, ... and with my childhood's faith: I love thee with the love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints, - I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

  18. Quiz • You have 5 minutes to complete this quiz: 1) Briefly, explain what ‘Sonnet 43’ is about. 2) Where was Elizabeth born? 3) The Victorian Era was named after __________.

  19. Thank You for listening…… • Done By: Mohammed Al-Ajeel Sulaiman Al-Hajeri Mohammed Al-Jassar

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