sonnet 43

• 'how do i love thee?'


  sets up a question to answer, first person intimate poem
• 'let me count the ways'


  suggests she has many ways and reasons for loving him
• 'depth and breadth and height'


  weighty concepts suggesting her love is comprehensive
• 'ends of Being and ideal Grace'


  a gift from God to make up for the poor relationship with her father
• 'i love thee to the level of every days'


  her love is never ending
• 'most quiet need by sun and candle-light'


  her love for her husband is a necessity as he brings light to her life
• 'i love thee freely'


  referencing her eloping with her husband, feeling free without her father
• 'men strive for Right'


  referring to religion and being morally correct and wholesome
• 'as they turn from praise'


  she loves Robert honestly and selflessly and doesn't expect anything returned
• 'childhood faith'


  faith she lost overtime as she lost hope in God
• 'love i seemed to lose'


  lost love from family and feeling the inability to love again
• 'breath, smiles, tears of all my life'


  she uses every part of her to love him, they are together through every aspect of their lives