sonnet43

• i love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach
• by sun and by candle light
• smiles, tears, of all my life!
• i love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhoods faith
• i love thee to the level of everyday's most quite needs
• i love thee with the breath
• i shall but love thee better after death
• sonnet form- love poem
• ideas that love transcends earth and daily conventions
• elizabeth browning wrote the poem to her husband, robert browning. Controversial relationship so it could have been a grand gesture
• she had been ill in her early life, her life was very fragile so robert could have been her saving grace as she believed she had been treated unfairly by her old gods