FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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How do I love thee
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Ode to a Grecian urn
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In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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Detailed explanation-1: -"I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
Detailed explanation-2: -Barrett Browning ends her poem by acknowledging that she is willing to love her husband forever if God chooses to allow her to do so. She writes, …and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is a conventional Petrarchan sonnet that lists the different ways in which the poet loves her husband. It follows in a tradition of sonnet-writing that reaches back to the poetry of the Renaissance, showing affection for one’s beloved whilst also displaying one’s own poetic skill.
Detailed explanation-4: -I shall but love thee better after death.” What is the meaning of the word “but” in the last line? The speaker in “How Do I Love Thee” declares that he or she loves the addressee with “passion” (line 9).
Detailed explanation-5: -“How do I love thee?” is a sonnet-which is no surprise, since it first appeared in a collection titled Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). Because it is a sonnet, the poem has 14 lines.