“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 before they got married to show her endless love for him. This repetition sounds almost like a plea, as if she tries to convince her partner to believe how deep she is in love. Browning asserts that she holds the “old griffes” and loves him with “childhood faith” – or in other words, the feeling that relieves her of old pain and loves him as a child: with blind faith.
“I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”
According to “How to Read a Poem,” to complete the poem “How much I love you,” I had to be imaginative and put every word in my experience and point of view because poems speak to us in many ways, and the form is not always direct or narrative.
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Yes, paying close attention to language is one way in which a reader can complete a poem, You have to go part of the way in trying to grasp the meaning of the language, which, as you say, is not always direct.