Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barret Browning

• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
• Depth and breadth and height
• In my old griefs…and with my childhoods faith
• Smiles, tears, of all my life-!
• I shall but love thee better after death
• summary of sonnet 43

  Sonnet 43, also known as "How do I love thee?", by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, expresses the speaker's deep and all-encompassing love for her husband, Robert Browning. The poem uses a rhetorical question and lists various ways the speaker loves, emphasizing the depth, breadth, and height of her affection, extending even to the afterlife. The sonnet explores the intensity and permanence of love, suggesting that it transcends physical boundaries and even death