To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Broadsheet How do love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning Long Trans Professor Sample English 102 September 30, 2013 From past to present love is always a huge source of inspiration for poets. Whatever the circumstances, any situation, or all the ups and downs, the poet can make it into a work of literature. ” To My Dear and Loving Husband” from Anne Broadsheet and ” How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” from Elizabeth Barrett Browning are two famous United Kingdom poems.
Both of two poems have the same meaning is that all authors want to express her pep feelings for her husband or her lover. ” To My Dear and Loving Husband” Anne Broadsheet begins by describing the compatibility between her and her husband, and after that she describes how much she values her husband’s love, how strong she love him, and she never be able to repay her husband for his love. This poem she wants to urge him to believe in their love and to another so that they can live forever. If ever two were one, they surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; The poem opens with TV ” if’ statement, which sets up quite a logical tone. In the first statement the Broadsheet says that if two people were one person, then she and her husband surely are. We can understand that how they believe in each other, she believe that their two souls have entered into one. This is the connection between her and her husband and that make the reader feel like they are just one person. In that case, we get the idea that these people are the ultimate couple.
In the second, she says that if ever his wife has loved any man, he has been. He is a lucky guy. Broadsheet use ” thee” instead of formal way of saying you, because she want to use the word that exactly express her feeling to the husband she love. We can called these first two lines are rhyming couplet, which means they are two line that repeat the same sound at the end. And after in this poem Broadsheet used six of these couplets, to emphases her love for him. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
Broadsheet says that if there was ever a wife that was happy with a guy, it’s her. Broadsheet repeated the ” if” statement in line three, which is the anaphora, and her purpose is underline the idea that this couple is the perfect couple – they represent the ideal of love. The word “compare” with her, which means that she’s totally sure that she is the happiest woman in the world. I prize thy love more than whole mines Of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold. Broadsheet is continues to speak about her love for her husband, and comparisons to prove her point.
She says she loves him more than gold mines and all the “riches of the East”. As we can know that is a place unimaginable and a lot of treasure (Asian). Another word that she used is prize, it makes the reader think that is a reward of winning something, and we can see how much she values her husband and his love. My love is such that rivers cannot quench. Nor ought but love from thee give recompense. Broadsheet is compare her love with nature, and describes her love in more elaborate terms. The word “quench” is means lots of things, which makes it tough to suds out the meaning of this line.
It usually means to extinguish, put out, or satisfy. In this case, she mean that her love is like a giant fireball that not even a river could put out or that her love for her husband is so powerful that she can never be satisfied. “Recompense” in this situation we can understand that Broadsheet suggesting that she will only be satisfied if her Cubans loves her in return. So at least we know there’s one thing that can quench her thirsty love is her husband’s reciprocation. Thy love is such I can no way repay The heavens reward three manifold, I pray.
Broadsheet says she has no way of repaying him for his love, and she pray that the ” heavens reward” him to her. The phrase ‘thy love is such I can no way repay” is a way of saying your is so awesome that I don’t know how I can ever repay you for it. And “manifold” means in many ways or many times, Broadsheet was hopping that while she can’t even repay her husband, the heavens will do that for her. The while we live, in love lees so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. Broadsheet concludes the poem by saying that she and her husband should love each other strongly while they are alive and live forever.
The word “persevere” is a strong word and we use it more when talking about striving against difficulties to reach a goal. She and her husband will pass any challenging by their lives, and as long as they remain in love they will be fine. Another love poem would talk about is ” How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ” Elizabeth Barrett Browning begin with questioning, she asks how such she love her beloved and tries to list the different ways in which she loves him. Her love seems to be eternal and to exist everywhere, and she intends to continue loving him after her own death if God lets her.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Browning use the question to entire the poem: how does she love thee, ” the man she loves. She decides to count the ways in which she loves him throughout the rest of the poem. She want to count how many ways that she can love him. In my opinion, she Wants to making a expression list Of love. I love thee to depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Browning describes her love by using spatial metaphor : “depth” , “breadth” and “height: that her soul can “reach”.
Therefore, reader can understand her love extends exactly as far as her soul in all directions; maybe her love and her soul are into one. In the next sentences ‘ nee feeling… Grace” this is an ambiguous passage, but we like to interpret this as she feeling for the edges of her being that are just “out of sight’ just like the reflection of you with the mirror. As she’s trying to feel the full extent of her soul, she realize that she eves “thee” in every part of it to depth breadth and height that it reaches I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
As Browning explains, she loves her beloved “to the level of every days/ most quiet need. ” This is a reminder that, even though she loves him with a passionate, abstract intensity, she also loves him in regular, day to day way. We can understand that she respect everyday he was beside her. She completes the description of this everyday love with two images of light “by sun and candlelight” that mean he is bright that she can see when she was cost her way in darkness, to pull her back to the right way that she just go wrong.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. The way that she love him seem to be very simple ” freely’ and “purely’ but if you think carefully you will see that Browning is implying that ” men strive for Right” in the first sentence. That is she trying to be morally good isn’t something anyone has to do’ its something they choose to do of their own free will. Everything we do in the life always have a choice, so her love might be not quite as free as we though.
Maybe its something she feels she has to o, even when she doesn’t want to. And the next sentence that her love is “pure’ in the way that being modest and refusing everyone else admiration is pure. Perhaps the speaker is also implying that she’s not proclaiming her love in order to be applauded by her readers. She’s not seeking praise for writing a great poem about love; she loves without wanting any reward or commendation. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old grief, and with my childhood faith.
After this two sentences the meaning of this poem change worst. “old grief” is think of an incident in your past that you still feel really angry about. And with the word “passion” we can feel Browning want to say love you with all the energy used to spend being bitter about stuff in my pass. ” She claims that she loves her beloved “with my childhood’s faith” in my opinion, I think she regretted what had gone through, she did not really appreciate when she has been, the memories of their past with the loved one what she loves.
And if we counting, the old grief way of loving is number five and the childhood’s faith way is number six. I love thee with a love seemed to lose With my lost saints- love thee with the breath, Smiles, tear, of all my life! And , if God Choose, I shall but love thee better after death. The speaker know she almost lose him, she love him with every smile that crosses her face- her happiness is always an expression of loving him, even when SSH?¬s smiling about something else.
But its not her happy moment that go into loving him; it the sad one, the tears from her, and even the regular. Breath, smile and tear is number eight, nine, ten of loving him. She use every single breath she takes is an expression of love for her beloved but how about the time when she dead, Browning final claim is that, if God lets her, h?¬s going to love her beloved even more intensely after death, she just find a new way of loving him we can call that after life, and this is number eleven of this poem.
Overviews of the two poems are on the way to the author’s feelings with someone they love. Both poems were repeated using words like “thee” to emphasize the emotional feelings of love for the author. Besides Broadsheet and Browning are both using the analogy of his feelings with those close around themselves as sun, candle, river or mine of gold. But besides that, the differences between the two poems are the author’s mood. The poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” Broadsheet express mood, hopeful about her feelings for her husband, she would be the person that love to overcome all hardships in life life. And in the poem “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” the poem at first seems bright but then gradually move in a different direction.
