Sonnet 43

The poem is written in first person

• True

• False

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Love and religion are interwoven in the poem

• True

• False

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The link between love and religion in the poem is used to emphasise that

• Elizabeth BB was very religious

• Elizabeth BB was not religious

• The love she feels for her partner is as strong as a religion to her

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'By sun and candlelight' emphasises that

• She loves him when they are outdoors and indoors

• She loves him continually and perpetually

• She uses comparisons to emphasise her feelings

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Who wrote Sonnet 43?

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Queen Elizabeth
• Elizabeth Gaskell

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Who did the poet write Sonnet 43 about?

• Her fiancé, Robert Browning
• Her father, Edward Barrett
• Her son, Robert Barrett Browning
• God

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In Sonnet 43, what does the quote 'I shall but love thee better after death' suggest?

• Their love is eternal

• The love will end once they have died

• Their love is dead

• The love isn't real until death

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What does "thee" mean?

• The

• Three

• You

• Him

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Why did Elizabeth Barrett Browning write sonnets for Robert Browning?

• To express her love.

• Because her father didn't approve of their relationship, so she had to write him secret messages of love instead of speaking to him freely.

• Because she felt that she wasn't clever enough to write longer poems, so she chose a short form instead.

• Because she could pretend that they'd been written in Portuguese and she was just translating them, so people didn't know she'd written them herself.

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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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