Activity 1 - Cabe, Marchelle T. Bsed English 3B
Activity 1 - Cabe, Marchelle T. Bsed English 3B
Activity 1 - Cabe, Marchelle T. Bsed English 3B
Activity 1
2. Explain the background of the author and her relationship in the making of the literary piece.
The tale of their courtship and marriage is a real-life Victorian romance that includes
love letters, elopement, and the Italian adventure of a lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
inherited her ideas about what poetry could do principally from the poets of the Romantic
period – in particular William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her great love, George
Gordon, Lord Byron.
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3. What do these lines mean to you?
“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.”
This means that she has transformed the love she used to have for someone she admired,
but was let down, and has since channeled it towards her new lover with the same intensity.
3. “How Do I Love Thee” as a Representative of Love. Do you agree or disagree on this?
I agree with this. The theme of Barrett Browning's poem is that true love is an all-
consuming passion. The quality of true love the poet especially stresses is its spiritual nature.
True love is an article of faith. In addition, the speaker is proclaiming her unending passion for
her beloved. She tells her lover just how deeply her love goes, and she also tells him how she
loves him. She loves him with all of her beings, and she hopes God will grant her the ability to
love him even after she has passed.
5. Make a recorded video. Pronounce/interpret the sonnet orally. Take note of the correct
pronunciation, etc. when teaching as if this literary text to your students. Send the video through in the
GDrive.
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