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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Being in love makes you feel things that you never thought you would ever feel. In the poem, “Sonnet 43”, the author Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses her feelings towards Robert Browning. Elizabeth writes, “ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” in that line she explains that she loves him with all her soul. In her poems love is shown in different ways. Her poems explain to the reader that even if he dies she will still love him. In the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Alicia Kim, Alicia explains that Elizabeth and Robert loved each other so much that they got married in secret on September 12, 1846. Most of Elizabeth's family accepted the fact that she married but her
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