Love Thee? By E.B. Browning Essay

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" By the contrast of describing her love for him as great and as far as heaven and yet as simple and down-to-earth as a "quiet need, by sun and candlelight" she brings love down to the fact that all people need love.

And then she goes on to describe her love as freedom, "I love thee freely, as men strive for Right" and purity, "I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise." It seems as though she is proclaiming not only her freedom in loving Robert but that she freely loves him and purely.

In the next lines she speaks of this love as a renewal of herself and, in a sense, she feels reborn from her "old griefs" and, again she speaks of her love as pure "…and with my childhood's faith." She also speaks of being once lost, "I love thee with a love I seemed to lover with my lost saints" and that when she places all of herself in her newfound love in Robert, "smiles, tears, of all my life!" So if God will permit, her love will not die with her but live on and- free from all of human's limitations- love him even better after she is gone, "and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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It is clear why this poem is so well-loved. It speaks clearly of how love should be, glorious, pure, simple, and undying. Love is a proclamation of a person's being and that is why it is both simple and complicated at the same time. Nevertheless, as with all things that are intangible, love is to be believed in at all cost, if not, what a sad and desperate world this would be......

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