An Explication of "How do I love Thee"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How do I love Thee" from "Sonnets from the
Portuguese" portrays a relationship and love in an exceptional manner that is not
very common by today's standards. In the opening line, the speaker portrays the
joy and delight felt by this kind of love and relationship. This is presented to the
reader in the form of the rhetoric question, "How do I love thee?" (1). The tone
conveyed is one of happiness showing this love to be as such. In the portrayal of
love, the speaker conveys it to be boundless: "I love thee to the depth a…
