Keats and Barrett Browning have each written a poem revolving around the theme of love, although the type of love differs greatly. One poem shows an optimistic view on love and the other a pessimistic. ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote her poem in the form of a sonnet, which is a love poem with a specific rhyming scheme, a sestet and a quatrain. ... Quite the opposite to the setting of a typical love poem. Yet that is where it has a parallel to John Clare’s ‘First Love’:
“Are flowers the winters choice? ... ”
Keats then goes on to describe the paleness, which may symbolize death:
“Pale warriors, death pale were they all”
John Clare then writes:
“My face turned deadly pale”
Another male poet called Lord Byron speaks of paleness in ‘When We Two Parted’:
“Pale grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy kiss”
The paleness relates to what is said by Edith Nesbit a female poet who wrote ‘Villegiature’:
“Your ghost last night climbed in uninvited”
In ‘How Do I Love Thee’ Barrett Browning uses images of warmth to intensify the feeling of being loved and how great it is:
“Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”
Christina Rossetti who wrote ‘A Birthday’ speaks of fruit and rainbows both can only be produced with the presence of light (sun):
“Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is trying to show how proud she is of her love, she is justifying her love for her partner, “How do I love thee?
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