I chose to write about “How I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barret Browning. In this love poem of “How I Love Thee”, Browning goes into every depth to show how much she loves thee. She starts off her poem by expressing that there are multiple ways in which she loves […]
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“How Do I Love You Thee?” (Browning line 1) is what this poem is based on. Using literary techniques, the speaker releases the powerful emotions hidden behind the ink. Each word is written with dedication. “How I Love You thee” is undoubtedly a love sonnet written for Barrett Browning’s husband […]
I chose to “complete” Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet How Do I Love Thee. I had to read this sonnet a few times over and over again before I was really able to make sense of it. In “How to Read a Poem”, Edward Hirsch says, “This act of completion begins […]
“The Lesson” is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara that revolves around African American children from Harlem, exposed to a new world beyond their impoverished community by a volunteer teacher, Miss Moore. She takes them to an exotic toy store on Fifth Avenue, mainly for whites. This trip is […]
