Thursday, July 24, 2008
How Do I Love Thee?
This poem is a petrarchan and is written in trochaic pentameter. The speaker is someone who is deeply in love, and the poem is addressing the one whom the speaker is in love with. The word "love" is repeated many times throughout the play to emphasize the speaker's love. Similes are used frequently throughout the play to describe how deep the speaker's love is. The theme of this poem is that love is ever powerful; if God chooses, their love will even survive death and be strengthened in Heaven.
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Yes, this is known as perhaps the greatest love poem of all time. You've probably heard it quoted more than once.
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