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    How Do I Love Thee? Is Sonnet Number 43 Taken From The Sonnets From The Portuguese

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    The document compares the poems "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare and "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Browning. Both poems express deep feelings of true, eternal love. Shakespeare's poem focuses on immortalizing the subject through poetry to overcome death. Browning's poem reinforces her love for someone without mentioning their name or gender, giving it universal appeal. Both poems are sonnets written to express romantic love and have lasting meaning for readers today through their use of tone, images, and symbolism to convey emotion.

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    The document compares the poems "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare and "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Browning. Both poems express deep feelings of true, eternal love. Shakespeare's poem focuses on immortalizing the subject through poetry to overcome death. Browning's poem reinforces her love for someone without mentioning their name or gender, giving it universal appeal. Both poems are sonnets written to express romantic love and have lasting meaning for readers today through their use of tone, images, and symbolism to convey emotion.

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    The document compares the poems "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare and "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Browning. Both poems express deep feelings of true, eternal love. Shakespeare's poem focuses on immortalizing the subject through poetry to overcome death. Browning's poem reinforces her love for someone without mentioning their name or gender, giving it universal appeal. Both poems are sonnets written to express romantic love and have lasting meaning for readers today through their use of tone, images, and symbolism to convey emotion.

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    How Do I Love Thee? Is Sonnet Number 43 Taken From The Sonnets From The Portuguese

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    Zosa, Jessa

    Bico, Jollybe G.

    Comparing the works of William Shakespeare “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Day”
    and Elizabeth Browning “How do I love thee?”

    Thesis Statement: True natural love and the eternity of true love is express in different
    ways.

    Problems:

    1. What kind of message do they want to send to the readers?


    2. How their personal life did affects the poems they write?
    3. How does love plays in their poem?

    Sonnet 18 or Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s Day is the best known and well-
    loved of all 154 sonnets. It is also one of the most straightforward in language and intent.
    The stability of love and its power to immortalize the subject of the poet's verse is the
    theme. The poet starts the praise of his dear friend without ostentation, but he slowly
    builds the image of his friend into that of a perfect being. His friend is first compared to
    summer in the octave, but, at the start of the third quatrain (9), he is summer, and thus,
    he has metamorphosed into the standard by which true beauty can and should be judged.
    The poet's only answer to such profound joy and beauty is to ensure that his friend be
    forever in human memory, saved from the oblivion that accompanies death. He achieves
    this through his verse, believing that, as history writes itself, his friend will become one
    with time. The final couplet reaffirms the poet's hope that as long as there is breath in
    mankind, his poetry too will live on, and ensure the immortality of his muse.

    How Do I Love Thee? Is sonnet number 43 taken from The Sonnets From the Portuguese,
    a book first published in 1850. Elizabeth Barrett Browning chose this title to give the
    impression that she had translated the work from the Portuguese and would therefore
    avoid any controversy. It was dedicated to her husband, poet Robert Browning. This
    sonnet helped kick-start many more on the theme of modern (Victorian) love, from a
    woman's perspective. The emphasis is on the repetition and reinforcement of the
    speaker's love for someone; there is no mention of a specific name or gender, giving the
    sonnet a universal appeal. This poem comes from another era however, a time when
    most women were expected to stay at home looking after all things domestic, not writing
    poems about love.

    Both Shakespeare and Elizabeth Browning have poems with a depth of love towards the audience for
    which they intended their poems. Shakespeare’s poem, also known as the Shakespearean Sonnet 18,
    holds meaning for lovers of the 21st century just as much as they did from the date of 1564-1616 when
    Shakespeare was alive. Both are sonnets and written to or for a person admired. Feelings of love and
    deep emotion are expressed. Both are Romanticized. That is they are written to be romantic and are
    inspired by love and romance. Shakespeare and Elizabeth Browning’s poem has tone, images and
    symbolism. Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” adresses heartfelt feelings of love
    like E. Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways,” and is Romanticized.

    References

    https://letterpile.com/poetry/Analysis-of-Poem-How-Do-I-Love-Thee-by-Elizabeth-
    Barrett-Browning

    http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18detail.html

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