My Last Duches by Robert Browning

Among the many poems that atomic number 18 found in Booth, Hunter and Mayes The Norton entre to Literature, it is with aside affray that Elizabeth Barrett Brownings How I Love Thee makes one of the most elicit reads to many. It is against this background knowledge that the poem has been chosen for analysis and reflection. Personal Reaction to the poesy The poem How Do I Love Thee by is by remote one of the richest poems in terms of both the internal qualities of the poem much(prenominal) as the theme and external qualities such as stylistic devices be considered.For instance, as far as extrinsic or aesthetic profuseness of the poem is concerned, the use of rhymes is heavily surviving, non only for the aesthetic purposes, exclusively to also help bolster the theme. Some of the rhymes found in no workforceclature such as Height and Sight, Grace and Days, Candlelight and Right, Praise and Faith, Use, abide and Choose, Depth and Breadth, Needy and Purely, Death and Breath (Booth, 125). That the rhymes are used to expound on the simile that the author uses to divulge on the panache of her feelings to her dear still underscores the theme and extent of wonder in the poem.Some of the subordinate clauses that are colored by these similes are as men strive for reform and as they turn from praise. Personal Explication of the poem The gravity of the poem in this case, is not hinged upon the heaviness of the theme or topic in itself, but the manner in which artistic and linguistic devices are harnessed to bring out the beauty and weightiness of the topic or theme being discussed. Particularly, it is through the use of language aesthetic ally that Browning expresses what honor is.For instance, readers get the public opinion that love should remain constant, at the mentioning of a love that remains extant throughout the authors life breath in the 12th stanza. That love should be based on unbosom will in property of compulsion is also underscored in the 7th stanza as the author mentions her love as being premised on free will as men strive for that which is right. Among a host of other virtues, love is expressed as being backed up by responsible actions by the referring of Love with a passion being to use in the 9th stanza (Browning, 75).Personal Feelings Evoked By the Poem The feelings evoke feelings of genuine love that love that commits itself to and through responsible action, as opposed to fickle feelings stanza 9. This love is expressed as being free stanza 7, pure stanza 8, and constant through the vagaries of life and present at the pull down of death stanzas 11-14. What the Poem Says About Life and the Human Condition It is against the backdrop of the above feelings and standpoints adduced by the poem that matters regarding life and human condition devolve to the fore.Particularly, it is this love that is needed in marriage with the high spates of divorce the population over attesting about its absence. The importance of this love transcends the marriage spectrum to permeate all facets of life and human existence. It is this kind of love that, upon existing, would see man assumption to philanthropy to better fellow mans welfare rather of building nuclear arsenals and indulging in the snares of avarice, folly and prejudice. Works Cited Booth, Alison. The Norton Introduction to Literature. WW Norton & Co. Inc. , 2004. Browning, B. Elizabeth. The Wondering Minstrels How Do I Love Thee? New York SAGE, 2005.