Love Elizabeth

Love Elizabeth

I need an analysis on How Do I Love You by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

250 Word Analysis

"How I thou love? Let me count the ways "Elizabeth descibing intensity of her love for her husband Robert." I love thee to the depth of wide and high "- the measurement is size in relation to the size of her love for her position in the universe. "My soul can reach when feeling out of sight" - Even when he could not see it and touch it physical soul and spirit still with him. "To that end and ideal grace", she compares her love for Robert to love God. "I love you to the next level each day's most quiet need, by sun and candle light "of his love he is just the basic needs as food, air and water are also basic needs and he needs loved him from the beginning to the end of the day as well as any other needs required throughout the day. "I love thee freely as men strive to correct" - love given freely, not forced and she will fight for their right to love him. This can also refer to the flight of his father and family at home so he can freely with the man she loved. "I love thee purely, as they turn from praise" her love for him is pure, he does not need or expect any compliments. "I like the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood faith"-The old griefs may refer to the accidental drowning of his brother he had not never fully recovered and the love he feels for Robert is as painful and intense as the grief she felt over losing his brothers. Exist in the same spirit of faith an innocent child who does not allow room for doubt. "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints"-though he have lost faith in him as as a child he had found again that the faith through love. "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, all my life" - she loved him through happy times and sad in his life and with every breath he takes. "And if you select the gods, I shall but love thee better after death"-his love will not end with death but will continue through eternity, god willing. Hope this helps ......