Sonnet 43

• I love thee to the depth, breadth and height my soul can reach'


  Her love goes beyond the physical universe, something spiritual in her love for them, she stretching her soul so she can live her live the most, enjambement
• The ends of being and ideal Grace.


  The use of the ends and ideal suggesting something faithful like Christianity, end stopped line shows a final result to finding her love
• I love thee freely as men strive for right


  Reference to the 1800s where men protested for rights, context of how her father refused Elizabeth's and Roberts marriage, liberating love
• I love thee with a love that I seemed to lose With my lost saints


  She loves them so much she's losing love for her religion, also showing she loves him more than Elizabeth's religion.
• I shall but love thee better after death


  The end of the poem reminds us of the wedding vows of til death do us part, shows tha she still hopes to love him even after death
• With the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood faiths


  The reference to her brother's death, shows the intensity of grief and shows how she's loving him with that intensity
• I love thee purely, as they turn from praise


  It shows that Elizabeth's love for her lover is idealistic as she has idealistic views of her social values such as praise and right
• Context


  -1850

  - lost her brother in 1840s

  -fell in love with Robert Browning

  -Christian

  -'til death do us part'

  -used in weddings
• Structure


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