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How Do I Love Thee Let Me Count The Ways
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by William Patrick Wend 11 years, 10 months ago
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- The poem is written in Iambic Pentameter and follows an unusual rhyme scheme but flows. The repetition of "I love thee" represents the ongoing intensity of her love. Hyperbole is used to show just how much love she has for him.
- 43rd of 44 poems written to her husband, the famous poet Robert Browning.
Summary
- The first eight lines display how much she loves him by using hyperbole. The love is so strong that it is felt every day in every way. It is fitting for a love poem. The last lines, however, display more of a mature love. She describes how her love is pure, faithful and she loves him with all that she has. It also touches on religious aspects through death and excalims she will love him even more after death if God allows it. It emphasizes that her love should not be measured by how much she says it, but instead by the depth in which she feels it.
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Analysis
- The line "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height" is similar to Paul's prayer in Ephesus in the New Testament:
- That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
- This is a poem about the infrastructure of faith and love
- Pureness of childhood faith in that infrastructure versus adolescent faith in the infrastructure of love
- Modern love examples would be Twilight, Taylor Swift, etc
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- Students have argued in the past that the love showed in this poem is comparable to the love God shows for humanity
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