‘Sonnet 43’ Word Scramble
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| Poem | Key Points |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning SUMMARY | Written before she married Robert Browning to express her intense love for him. In it, Browning attempts to define her love. |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning THEMES | Love as powerful and all-encompassing |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning FEELINGS | Strong belief in love. Spiritual. |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning STRUCTURE | Traditional length = 14 lines but does not strictly follow rules. Fairly regular rhyme scheme but flexible. Poem about perfect love but avoids perfection in its structure. |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning LANGUAGE | Uses repetition 'I love thee' used 8 times. Opens with rhetorical question. Love compared to important concepts 'Grace''Right''Praise' using capital letters for emphasis. 'Towards the end lines are more broken by punctuation - suggests passion, excitement |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning KEY QUOTES | ‘I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/My soul can reach’ comprehensive - fully defines poet's love. ‘I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost Saints!’ ‘if God choose,/I shall but love thee better after death’ |
| ‘Sonnet 43’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning LINKS TO… | ‘Hour’ love as a positive and powerful force ‘Sonnet 116’ part of a larger sonnet sequence, and insists on the endurance of love. |
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