How does the poet convey the theme of love and admiration in Sonnet 43?
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Explanation:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. thee: the poet's husband, Robert BrowningI love thee to the depth and breadth and height depth, breadth: internal rhymeMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightwhen . . . Grace: when my soul feels its way into the spiritual realmFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.(out of sight) to find the goal of being alive and living uprightlyI love thee to the level of everyday'sI love you enough to meet all of your simple needs during the Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.day (sun) and even during the night (candle-light)I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;freely: willingly—and just as intensely as men who fight for freedom I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.purely: genuinely, without desire for praiseI love thee with the passion put to usewith an intensity equal to that experienced during suffering orIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.mourning; I love you with the blind faith of a childI love thee with a love I seemed to losewith . . . saints: with a childlike fervor for saints and holiness that I With my lost saints!—I love thee with the breath,seemed to lose when I grew older. breath: echoes breadth, Line 2Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,Smiles . . . life: perhaps too sentimentalI shall but love thee better after death.
Answer:
In Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning, she conveys her love for her future husband Robert Browning by saying it is immeasurable and unbounded; through the suggestion that the reaches of her soul are infinite, therefore, so is her love for Robert.