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Sonnet 43 How Do I Love Thee

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Sonnet 43 How Do I Love Thee

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    1. Sonnet #43 (How Do I Love Thee?) Elizabeth Barrett Browning Taken from the Sonnets From the Portuguese Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 Married Robert Browning Famous English Poet “My Last Duchess” Highly influenced by the English Romantic Poets Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    3. English Romantic Period 1798-1832 Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    4. William Wordsworth 1770-1850 “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    6. Lord Byron 1788-1824 “She Walks in Beauty Like the Night” Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    7. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 “Ode to the West Wind” Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    8. John Keats 1795-1821 “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    9. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Contrast those of the eighteenth century Stressed reason and judgment Romantic writers emphasized imagination and emotion Concerned with the general or universal in experience Romantic writers were concerned with the particular Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    10. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Asserted the values of society as a whole Romantic writers championed the value of the individual human being Sought to follow and to substantiate authority and the rules derived from authority Romantic writers strove for freedom Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    11. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Primary inspiration came from classical Greek and Roman authors Romantic writers took a revitalized interest in medieval subjects and settings Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    12. Rhetorical Structure Question—Answer Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    13. Question “How do I love thee?” (1) Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    14. Answer “Let me count the ways.” (1) The speaker identifies 8 ways to express love Focuses on the evolution of faith Focuses on the evolution of maturity The speaker recognizes that life and love will be good and bad Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    15. Answer 1 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. Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    16. Answer 2 I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    17. Answer 3 I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    18. Answer 4 I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    19. Answer 5 I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    20. Answer 6 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!--- Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    21. Answer 7 I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!--- Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    22. Answer 8 and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    23. Most Significant Literary Devices Anaphora Paradox Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    24. Anaphora Deliberate Repetition Purpose Helps to establish tone regarding love The speaker loves in virtually every way possible Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

    25. Paradox Paradoxical answers to the question “How do I love thee?” Love is divine and everyday Love is childlike and mature Love has tears and joy Love exists through life and continues after death Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43

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