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1. Sonnet #43(How Do I Love Thee?) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Taken from the
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2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
Married Robert Browning
Famous English Poet
My Last Duchess
Highly influenced by the English Romantic Poets
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3. English Romantic Period
1798-1832 Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43
4. William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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6. Lord Byron 1788-1824
She Walks in Beauty Like the Night
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7. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
Ode to the West Wind
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8. John Keats 1795-1821
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
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9. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Contrast those of the eighteenth century
Stressed reason and judgment
Romantic writers emphasized imagination and emotion
Concerned with the general or universal in experience
Romantic writers were concerned with the particular
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10. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Asserted the values of society as a whole
Romantic writers championed the value of the individual human being
Sought to follow and to substantiate authority and the rules derived from authority
Romantic writers strove for freedom
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11. Characteristics of the Romantic Period Primary inspiration came from classical Greek and Roman authors
Romantic writers took a revitalized interest in medieval subjects and settings
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12. Rhetorical Structure
QuestionAnswer
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13. Question
How do I love thee? (1)
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14. Answer Let me count the ways. (1)
The speaker identifies 8 ways to express love
Focuses on the evolution of faith
Focuses on the evolution of maturity
The speaker recognizes that life and love will be good and bad
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15. Answer 1
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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16. Answer 2
I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
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17. Answer 3
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
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18. Answer 4
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise
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19. Answer 5
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
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20. Answer 6
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!---
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21. Answer 7
I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!---
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22. Answer 8
and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
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23. Most SignificantLiterary Devices
Anaphora
Paradox Geschke/English IV AP Browning's Sonnet #43
24. Anaphora Deliberate Repetition
Purpose
Helps to establish tone regarding love
The speaker loves in virtually every way possible
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25. Paradox Paradoxical answers to the question How do I love thee?
Love is divine and everyday
Love is childlike and mature
Love has tears and joy
Love exists through life and continues after death
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