Love, Love, Love

Robert Browning: Mad for love

Briefly summarize the emotions the speaker experiences during Porphyria’s Lover.

The author here, from my point of view, has a mixture of many feelings such as love and fears, but it is hard for him to manage all his emotions correctly. As the poem goes on, he kills the lady and that makes him been able to experience a total different fear that is power. He was again confused after that without knowing how to control or distinguish his feelings, he loves her lady even more now that she is dead.

How do the speaker’s emotions change as the poem progresses?

At the bgining he knows what he is feeling even though he is a bit confused, then he feels desires to kill the lady, he feels he has doen the right thing even though he became sad later….then he felt love for her lady as he admires her while she was dead, later he can not control or clarify his feelings again.

Why do you think the speaker murders his beloved?

I think he was not able to manage or control his emotions and they went out of his hands, also  he was like out of his mind, kind of crazy because he killed the lady that he loves, he did not knew how to use his emotions or feelings correctly

Elizabeth Barret Browning: Love without limits

Use words, symbols, sketches, or images to create a collage that summarizes the content of Sonnet 43 and communicates the emotions presented in it.

Do you think that the emotions presented in this sonnet are universal? Why or why not?

Well, this ppoem talks about love and love no matter the religion, the culture, the language, etc. is something that all humans had experience and will continue to experience through their lives. Love does not discriminates, is a pure feeling that can be feel in many was, it has many expressions and finaly love is what makes the world go around so the emotions here are finaly universal because all humans feel all the exisiting amotions not only once but thousands of times along their lives.

The most famous line in Sonnet 43 is “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”. Why do you think this line is so popular?

Because is a very realistic phrase and at the same is kind of a metaphor  I believe. Is popular because it really shows the meaning of love and how it can transform lives. This phrase is also very romantic  because, I think that  when somebody tells you -let me count the ways in which I love you- shows the inmensity love feeling that that soemone feels for you and that makes us feel importanta and good, is popular because is a very touching phrase.

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