summary of how do i love thee by elizabeth barrett browing
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her love sonnet “How Do I Love Thee” beautifully expresses her love for her husband. Listing the different ways in which Elizabeth loves her beloved, she also insists that if God permits her she will continue loving the love of her life even after her death.
A prominent Victorian poet Elizabeth wrote 44 sonnets to express the courtship between herself and Robert Browning, her love and would be husband.
“How Do I Love Thee” is a sensitive poem because of the reason that the poetess here defines herself only in the ways she loves Robert. Love is portrayed to be intangible; it can even be felt even after one settles in the cold grave.
Love according to Elizabeth is not an earthly concept because she loves freely and purely without thinking about the why’s and how’s of love and its future possibilities. Though both the lovers never met but still they express their love for each other by the means of sharing poems and this is obviously one of the poems they shared in the moments of their love.