She addresses her listener, likely her husband Robert Browning, and tells him that there are many reasons why she loves him and that she’s going to list them out.
She loves him with all of her beings, and she hopes God will grant her the ability to love him even after she has passed.īrowning engages with themes of love/devotion and relationships in ‘Sonnet 43’. From the first lines, it’s clear that this is going to be a love poem. She tells her lover just how deeply her love goes, and she also tells him how she loves him. In the poem, the speaker is proclaiming her unending passion for her beloved. It is easily one of the most famous and recognizable poems in the English language. In the ninth line, she says that she loves him with an intense suffering, equating to Christ on the cross and that she will love him even after death.Sonnet 43′ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning describes the love that one speaker has for her husband. In this poem, there is no doubt, fear or hesitation which was evident in the earlier poems of the series. The love here is described on a spiritual level. The poem expresses an intense feeling of love and desire for Robert Browning. In the love poem, which is written in iambic pentameter, speaks of the unrequited love of the poet for her husband. Sonnet 43 is one of the most popular sonnets in this collection. With references to Rialto, a marketplace, and a theatre district, it shows how the poet has the innocence and naivety of the countryside but the grooming and refinement of a city. This can imply to Murano glass which was manufactured in Venice. In one of her sonnets, she calls a mirror as Venice-glass. This comes in contrast with the pastoral setting of the countryside to a city buzzing with activity. Venice is considered a romantic city rich in culture. He developed the concept of a pastoral setting.Īnother place discussed in the sonnets is Venice.
Another reason her sonnets can be considered to have pastoral settings is that of her reference to Theocritus who is an ancient Greek poet. This can be because it is considered that the purity of nature can be equated to love. She invokes nature in the majority of her poems. Browning has achieved what any woman in the Victorian era yearns for and that is love. There is no stylization of herself as the male as it is often the case with female writers. hence the speaker and the listener can be imagined. The Petrarchan Sonnet resonates with a pastoral setting with the voice of the poet speaking to her husband.
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