Comparing Two Love Poems

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In both of the selections, the author includes the ways in which they love the person they are talking about. In “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, the author explains, “I love thee with the passion put to use” (Browning 9). This quote can be paraphrased to mean “I love you passionately”. In “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the author says,”No moment at thy voice...but, link by link, / Went counting all my chains” (Browning 5-6). This quote can mean “ When i would think of my love, it would hold me back”, this quote shows the love that the author has for their past loved one. The quotes both show a love relationship, the difference is, is that in “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the poem does not take a direct approach to say “I love you”, instead, the author tells about how much they miss their loved one. …show more content…

In “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, the author says,”I love thee to the level of every day’s / Most quiet need” (Browning 5-6). This quote explains how the author’s love would take care of her little needs. In “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the author writes, ”That thou wast in the world a year ago”(Browning 2). This quote explains how the author will proceed to talk about their love, they go on to talk about how they feel about their lost love. The differences between the two poems is that “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” explicitly says the theme( I will love you forever) and it shows a simpler way of getting to the overall theme than “Beloved, my Beloved, when I

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