How much I love you
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806- 186 1)
How do I love you? Let me count it carefully.
I love you beyond measure.
My soul can touch it, when I feel invisible.
For the purpose of existence and ideal elegance.
I love you to the level of everyday.
The quietest demand, under the sunshine and candlelight.
I love you freely, like people fighting for justice;
I love you purely, just as they avoid praise.
I love you with my passion.
In my past grief, with my childhood beliefs.
I love you with a love that seems to have been lost.
With my dead saints, I love you with my breath,
Smile, tears, all my life! -If God chooses,
I will love you more after I die.
Elizabeth barrett browning [elizabeth barrett browning] was born in Durham (a county in the north of England). 1806. 1838, she published Saraf and Other Poems [Saraf-Serafin (the tallest of the Nine-Day Ambassadors), also known as the angel of love]. From 65438 to 0843, Elizabeth's nomination as a national poet was more widely supported, because the supreme ruler of Britain at that time was a woman. Unfortunately, she lost to another great poet of her time, william wordsworth [I will write about this person when I have the chance]. Shortly thereafter, Elizabeth married another talented poet, robert browning. However, Elizabeth's father did not agree to the marriage. So, the couple decided to escape. And this led to a romantic marriage. Elizabeth and robert browning will go their separate ways, escape to Italy, meet in Pisa and continue their lives. They succeeded. Three years later, that is, 1849, they have settled in Florence in central Italy. One day, Elizabeth gave her husband a precious gift-44 sonnets she wrote for her husband, which contained initial doubts, fear of fighting with her family, sweetness with her lover and joy of winning love at last. In the same year, their only boy was born. A year later, at 1850, the Brownings published those 44 poems, but they were disguised. They named these 44 poems after "Portuguese Sonnets". In this way, readers will accept the implication that these poems are translated from Portuguese. So today we can see such poems expressing true love and deep love. Elizabeth's romantic marriage made her the most beautiful love poem in the whole Victorian era.