Comparison of God's and a Husband's Love (Essay Sample)
Click on the above link to read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry.
Note Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry is filled with love and devotion.
Elizabeth Browning loved God as her lover before Robert Browning came along and she dedicated her self to God, but understood that all her love could not be physical, God was totally in control, and she would have to die to be with him. These are her first poems. Then when Robert Browning came along in her life, she transferred her love for God to him and loved him with that devotion, but also then experienced earthy love. This is the beauty of her poems. You should read them knowing this piece of knowledge.
Read the 2 poems below. That way you will have an idea that the first are dedicated to God and the second to her husband
Below are 4 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems. III is to God and XXX is to God and her husband. The last two are to her husband. How does she compare what it means to love God and now love her husband?
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A comparison of God's and a Husband's Love
In her poem about God, Elizabeth Barrett Browning sets the tone and mood for the entire poem with "distance," repeated throughout the poem. Her main focus is to communicate her doubts, sadness, and distance between herself and her beloved. She begins the poem by repeating the word "unlike," emphasizing the concepts of difference and distance as if "thou" belonged to a universe quite distinct from the speaker's. So, just as the apostrophe "O princely Heart" aims to draw the reader's attention to the fact that the masculine character's nature is splendid and giving. The anaphora makes the relationship between the two characters, "I" and" Thou" distant.
Barrett thinks to herself and questions Robert Browning in one of her poems, "How Do I Love Thee?" She then constructs her response to the questions raised. Barrett's use of phrases like "depth," "breadth," as well as "height" alongside the words "soul," and "grace" creates the impression that love is ineffable (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). She also uses
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