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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43

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"How do I love thee?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning's first sentence in her poem "Sonnet 43" written for here husband Robert Browning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an amazing poet. She was born in Durham, England and started to write poems when she was 10 years of age. Robert Browning started to read Elizabeth's poems after she had published them. He had wrote to her telling her how much he loves her poems.They began to fall for each other and they ended up getting married but Elizabeth's father disowned her, her father didn't talk to her nor open any letters she wrote to him. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life experiences influenced her theme for "Sonnet 43" and her tone and also her style.

In "Sonnet 43" the theme is love is powerful and all-encompassing
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