Due to our week 11 activities, I have gained a new respect for poets and their abilities to portray many emotions in a few number of words. This allows the reader of said poem to feel the individual emotions of the author. I first recognized this in Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Specifically in the line, “I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use” (Browning). This line shows the speaker’s infinite love for their significant other and the various was they can describe their love. Another line this is relevant in is, “Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death” (Browning). This line further goes into how the speaker’s love extends even to the end of their natural lives and into the mystery of death.
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