Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee

What is a Sonnet?

• a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter

• a 14-line poem with free verse rhyming scheme with meter

• a 14-line poem with exact rhyme, but without a meter

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Sonnet 43 expresses

• the poet’s intense love for her husband-to-be

• the poet's intense longing for freedom

• the poet's intense desire to live her chosen life

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does this line mean? "I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;"

• gladly- as how a person choose to live the right way

• bravely - and just as strongly as a person fights for what's right

• willingly- and just as intensely as men who fight for freedom

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does this line mean? "I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise."

• genuinely without desire for adoration and approval

• genuinely without the need for love and happiness

• wholeheartedly without the need for flattery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who is 'thee' in the poem?

• Robert Barret

• Barret Browing

• Robert Browning

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9