Sonnet 43

• How do i love thee? let me count the ways
• i love thee to the depth and breath and height my soul can reach
• i love thee freely as men strive for right
• in my old griefs and with my childhoods faith
• i love thee with a love i seemed to lose
• the breath smiles tears of all my life
• to the level of every days most quite need , by sun and candlelight
• i shall love thee better after death
• who is the poet?

  Elizabeth Browning
• who is the poem dedicated to?

  Robert Browning
• how many sonnets were there?

  44
• what is the name of her collection?

  sonnet from the portuguese
• what did her husband call her?

  my little portuguese
• what were her "old Griefs"?

  her lost in faith and her father disowning her and disapproved of her marriage
• what did she suffer with?

  head aches , backpain , vomiting = an unknown illness
• what kind of sonnet is this?

  petrarchan sonnet
• what are the first 8 lines called?

  octave
• what are the next 6 lines called?

  sestet - childhood
• how are the 2 sections of the poem divided?

  volta
• what poems can you compare love and relationships?

  Cozy Apologia

  Valentine

  The Manhunt
• what poems can you compare innocence and lost innocence?

  Afternoons