Sonnet 43 1850 * Flashcards
Elizabeth Barret Browning - love and relationship, faith and worship
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context
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- published originally as a translation - Sonnets fromt he portugese, not actual translation was written by her
- ok for women to translate however nto to write
- eloped with her husband - broke societal convections, creative partnerhsip and love
- obsessed with her husabnd Robert Browning
- ill in youth - looked up to God to eleviate her suffering
- conventional structure for literature - antiquity, older tradition
- petriarchan sonnet, written in iambic pentameter with an ABBA ABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme
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paragraphs if named
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- presents an exageratted love
- heavenly love
- transcendent of societal views
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poem to compare with
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- valentine
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para ideas - love
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against valnetine:
- both describe a passionate love
- however valentine more nuanced love, sonnet 43 glorifies love
- however valentine more relaistsic
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para 1
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- “let me count the ways” plural
- “I love thee to the depth, breadth and height my soul can reach” - attempts to quantify her love for it to make snes sicne its so great, hyperbolic
- “passion put to use” all her passion is put towards her husband
- “i love thee”, anaphora making it important, true love, midn going in circles, can only focus on her love
- “-I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life-“, is givign her everthing to him, ceasura creating a pause, signifes importance
- “by sun and candelight”, day and night, constant love temporal
- enjambemtn usec thrughout
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para 2
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- “for the ends of Being and ideal Grace”,
- “my childhood’s faith”, “I love thee with a love I seemed to loose”
- “my lost saints”
- “if God shoose I shall but loev thee better after death”
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para 3
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- ””