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Sonnet 14 from the Portuguese

Sonnet 14 from the Portuguese. Author: Elizabeth Barret Browning. Elizabeth Barret Browning. She was born on March 6, 1806 She was born in Coxhoe Hill Durham , England Her parents were really wealthy due to her family’s land in Jamaica She was home schooled and very studious

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Sonnet 14 from the Portuguese

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  1. Sonnet 14 from the Portuguese Author: Elizabeth Barret Browning

  2. Elizabeth Barret Browning • She was born on March 6, 1806 • She was born in Coxhoe Hill Durham , England • Her parents were really wealthy due to her family’s land in Jamaica • She was home schooled and very studious • Her writing is compared to Shakespeare

  3. Sonnets from the Portuguese • She wrote it in 1850, dedicated to her husband (Robert Browning) • She wrote it secretly before they got married • This was one of her best works, and one of the best works in her time • It was a series of sonnets, a total of 44 • She had to hide her love by changing the title of her poem to Sonnets from the Portuguese , so it looks like she was just translating this from Portuguese • Usually it’s a male writing to women in the Elizabethan Time Period but this is the opposite.

  4. What is your definition of loving someone? • Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. • Loving someone means you love them for who they are and for love sake. ( not for looks or pity) • Love is when you admire someone , you care for them, you look up to them , and you respect them.

  5. Read the poem , find the message and theme. If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept for love’s sake only. Do not say“I love her for her smile—her look—her wayOf speaking gently,—for a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes broughtA sense of pleasant ease on such a day” For these things in themselves, Belovèd, mayBe changed, or change for thee,and love, so wrought,May be unwrought so. Neither love me forThine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who boreThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!But love me for love’s sake, that evermoreThou may’st love on, through love’s eternity.

  6. Theme • The theme is to love someone for love sake and love’s sake only, not for pity or looks because those wont last and change. Love sake in love is the only thing that will last for eternity and will not change. The sonnet is about how you love someone for love sake that is it

  7. Literary devices? Rhyme Personification Alliteration Repitition

  8. Unique/Modern connections In Elizabeth’s time, sonnets were generally written about girls by men, however Elizabeth wrote about a guy. This was very different. The roles were reversed. This is very similar to poetry today. There are a lot of literature where women talk about men.

  9. Modern literature relationship? Can you think of any modern connections to this sonnet. Any songs that relate to any part of the theme? Get together in groups of 2-3 and the group who wins gets a prize.

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