I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
At first, Elizabeth Browning states how many ways she loves. But the number of ways she loves is really numerous. She loves Robert from every dimension of her whole being and up to where her soul can reach. Her love is on the same level of our everyday’s basic needs like food, shelter and water. She loves freely like mankind striving for justice and fairness. She loves him with the enthusiasm or desires she used from her old sufferings when she was a child. The love for him is her reason to live, to be happy, and to survive. She even said that death makes her love him better. She was willing to give her life to God and promised that her love to Robert will stay eternally.
The poem “How Do I Love Thee?” of Elizabeth Barrett Browning was very romantic and heartfelt. The theme was the intense love for her husband who is Robert Browning. The poem was not that simple but it really expressed LOVE.
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