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    Linking Sonnets From The Portuguese to The Great Gatsby 1. The Theme of Love Sonnet 1. Love enters and transforms our life as totally‚ as unanswerably as Death. Like Death it is a presence we have almost no say in. In Fitzgerald’s novel how does love transform Gatsby? But does it transform Daisy? Does it enter into the loves of Nick or Jordan Baker? Sonnet XIV “If thou must love me‚ let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say I love her for her smile – her look – her

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    Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert

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    "Sonnet: How Do I Love Thee" by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning & "Sonnet XVIII" by: William Shakespeare Both‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ’s "How Do I Love Thee" and William Shakespeare ’s "Sonnet XVIII‚" explore the universal theme of eternal‚ transcending love. Similarly‚ both sonnets are confessions of love towards a male subject. Browning ’s is a passionate love; one that the Greeks referred to as eros. "Eros is Love‚ who overpowers the mind‚ and tames the spirit in the breasts of both gods

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    SONNET 13 In the first two lines of "Sonnet 13"‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning asks Robert if he wants her to write how she feels about him. In lines 3 and 4‚ she uses the metaphor of a torch in rough winds‚ which is meant to enlighten what is between them. In line 5‚ she drops it and goes on to say she cannot describe what she feels between them. In lines 6 through 8‚ she says she cannot risk herself by describing to him how she feels‚ and that she will not. In lines 9 through 14‚ she goes on to say

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    thee? By Elizabeth Browning The poem‚ "How do I love thee" is a passionate affirmation of love from Elizabeth to her lover Robert Browning. In this poem‚ Elizabeth declares her spiritual and pure love for Robert and describes the many ways in which she feels for him‚ and therefore defines her love. On the poem she express three different ideas of love which are the depth of her love‚ an attempt to describe the indescribable and the comparison to known feelings and interactions. Elizabeth Barrett

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    Sonnet 43 Analysis

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    ‘Sonnet 43’ is a romantic poem‚ written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the poem she is trying to describe the abstract feeling of love by measuring how much her love means to her. She also expresses all the different ways of loving someone and she tells us about her thoughts around her beloved. The tone of the poem is deep‚ in a loving way. The poet starts of by saying “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways‚” by which she starts of with a rhetorical question‚ because there is no ‘reason’

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    themes of a text. A text mirrors the concerns of the time and place in which it was written. The interpretation of a text also depends on the context of the reader. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are a reflection of the Victorian era in which it was composed‚ as well as of Barrett Browning’s personal experiences. The Great Gatsby‚ a novel composed by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is also an example of the great extent to which a text is fashioned by the circumstances under which it

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    beloved and the lovers who just want a place in the heart of their beloved in lieu of the whole they possess. “Here’s God’s Plenty” as Dryden said of Chaucer‚ which is also applicable to Browning. His love poems are the real pictures of life drawn on the canvass of all human impossible limits. Robert Browning was born in the comparatively rural perish of Camberwell in London on May 7‚ 1812. His father was a clerk in the Bank of England. In his Inner heart‚ he was an interesting combination of

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    composed by Robert Browning‚ are two poems that represent the personal morality and paradigms associated with an individual living in the early 19th Century. Meeting at Night tells the tale of a young lover travelling a long distance to meet up with his lover whilst it also metaphorically recounts a sexual encounter. Browning chooses to represent society’s repressive nature by portraying a secretive relationship (reflective of his own relationship with Elizabeth Barrett). In‚ “And the startled

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    ‘Aurora Leigh’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Home-thoughts‚ from Abroad’ by Robert Browning both portray the land they love and prize and show how important it is to the individual‚ in different ways. The former poem‚ written in 1856‚ during the Victorian feminist era‚ where Barrett Browning takes on the persona of Aurora Leigh (although slightly auto-biographical) as a dramatic monologue‚ tells a story about different views about the world and nature. It is very clear by the way she

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