Although the two poems were written centuries apart, both of them share the concept of love, and the sense of being completed by the other half. The poem, “To My Dear Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet has more of an intimate tone as it was written for her husband while Elizabeth Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee” describes love in a more far reaching way. There are a lot more similarities between the two poems, but the most evident among these is that both of them share a happy and a passionate marriage. In their poems “To My Dear Loving Husband” and “How Do I Love Thee”, the readers are presented a clear imagery of a lover who is madly and deeply in love with her partner. Through these concepts of love, the two authors basically quantify love
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They each represent a love that is free and faithful. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “How Do I Love Thee” help each poet to reveal how deeply they each love their husbands in every way imaginable. Anne Bradstreet takes a lot of pride that no women could match up to the love she has for her husband. She describes this by saying, “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can” (line 3-4). Through this Bradstreet shows her depth of love for her husband using many themes like passion. On the other hand, Elizabeth Browning starts her poem by counting her love as she has forgotten how big it is due to its enormity. She says, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, this showed how Browning’s love was more on the bases of remembering and counting her love for her husband, Bradstreet on the other hand bases it on expressing it directly to her husband, but they both focus widely on how much they can experience the size of their love. It’s quite interesting how they both share the similarity in their poems of an appraising …show more content…
In her poem, Bradstreet wrote how much she loves her spouse and how greater her love is compared to the things she has counted in her poem. The first thing she has made into comparison is between her love and the wealth of the world. She says, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold. Or all the riches that the east doth hold” (lines 5-7). In here, she said that the love of her husband is more important to her than the unimaginable size of wealth that the east probably has. It’s obvious that being a Puritan woman who is supposed to be reserved, Bradstreet makes it her commitment to clarify her husband of her devotion. She uses figurative languages like imagery to express her adoration for her husband, also she says that she cherishes his love more than the tangible treasures in the world. According to the PowerPoint on Anne Bradstreet, “this shows an almost boundless quantification of her love” (McCune Slide 13). She goes on to describing her love for her husband as everlasting. In line 10, Bradstreet says, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray” (Bradstreet 465) by saying she lets the reader know that she strongly believes that her and her husband should continue to love each other more and more each day, so when they reach heaven, their love would be everlasting; eternal love in a way. Bradstreet spends time
They each represent a love that is free and faithful. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “How Do I Love Thee” help each poet to reveal how deeply they each love their husbands in every way imaginable. Anne Bradstreet takes a lot of pride that no women could match up to the love she has for her husband. She describes this by saying, “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can” (line 3-4). Through this Bradstreet shows her depth of love for her husband using many themes like passion. On the other hand, Elizabeth Browning starts her poem by counting her love as she has forgotten how big it is due to its enormity. She says, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, this showed how Browning’s love was more on the bases of remembering and counting her love for her husband, Bradstreet on the other hand bases it on expressing it directly to her husband, but they both focus widely on how much they can experience the size of their love. It’s quite interesting how they both share the similarity in their poems of an appraising …show more content…
In her poem, Bradstreet wrote how much she loves her spouse and how greater her love is compared to the things she has counted in her poem. The first thing she has made into comparison is between her love and the wealth of the world. She says, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold. Or all the riches that the east doth hold” (lines 5-7). In here, she said that the love of her husband is more important to her than the unimaginable size of wealth that the east probably has. It’s obvious that being a Puritan woman who is supposed to be reserved, Bradstreet makes it her commitment to clarify her husband of her devotion. She uses figurative languages like imagery to express her adoration for her husband, also she says that she cherishes his love more than the tangible treasures in the world. According to the PowerPoint on Anne Bradstreet, “this shows an almost boundless quantification of her love” (McCune Slide 13). She goes on to describing her love for her husband as everlasting. In line 10, Bradstreet says, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray” (Bradstreet 465) by saying she lets the reader know that she strongly believes that her and her husband should continue to love each other more and more each day, so when they reach heaven, their love would be everlasting; eternal love in a way. Bradstreet spends time