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Summary | How Do I Love Thee? How Do I Love Thee is a sonnet that presents the idea of love as powerful and encompassing all. It expresses the poetic persona's passionate feelings for her husband Robert Browning. The poem has a flexible rhyme and a positive language. The poem opens with a rhetorical question. The interrogative mark at the end of the end of the first line makes the poem seem light hearted and playful. For full poem, "How Do I Love Thee?", Please click the below link 'Poem' >> Poem   She tries to count the ways in which she can express her passionate love for her husband. She brings out the quiet intensity of love by saying her love is deeper and broader and higher than where her soul can reach. She then compares love to weighty important concepts like 'Being and ideal grace'. Then she brings out the quiet intensity of love through a domestic picture she paints by sun and candle light. Love is positive and a powerful force that express...

About the poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. She started writing poetry at the age of six. Her early poems, compiled and published by her mother form one of the largest extant of juvenilia by any England writer. She married the leading Victorian poet Robert Browning. She was very popular both in England and America during her lifetime. About the poem: How Do I Love Thee? was published in 1850 as sonnet 43 in the collection entitled Sonnets from Portuguese. It is a sonnet. It expresses the poetic persona's passionate feelings for her husband Robert Browning. For the Summary of "How Do I Love Thee?", Please click the below link 'Summary' >> Summary How Do I Love Thee? 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 every day's Most quiet...