Elizabeth Barrett Browning Research Paper

The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning was bent and shaped by one's whom she had loved throughout her life. Her poetry has shown, like a book, that the ending of a novel ends up within a new perspective, as a result from conflicts. A plotline to a book is like emotions to a human. Barrett was overpowered by love, and she spilled it all in her poetry. She loved her father, her brother, and Robert Browning. Although strong passion fueled her poetry, so did the loss of her loved ones. Love was sacrificed, but she would still have love in the end. Love influences how one acts or thinks, and Barrett showed that in her poetry. Elizabeth Barrett’s brother meant very much to her, for he was her favorite out of her eleven siblings, but unfortunately

The notice from one eminent poet to another had an interesting effect towards love. Once he writes her, “I do say, love these books with all my heart-and I love you too” (91), it is obvious this is just the beginning of a relationship. Barrett was fascinated and shocked at how a poet as famous as Robert Browning would write her a letter explaining how how much he loved her poetry- and her. She simply wrote a letter back, not confessing her love for Browning as well, but a thank you: “It is indeed true that I was so near to the pleasure and honour of making your acquaintance?... I must be a devout admirer and student of your works. This in my heart to say to you- and I say it” (92). She must have been quite taken aback, for she had grown a desire for him, affecting her poetry as well as her heart. They began to write to each other poetically, as well romantically, and they fell in love. She wrote in a sonnet her love for him, “How do I love thee?/ Let me count the ways/ I love thee to the depth and breadth of height/ My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight” (90). Their love for each other was very passionate, although it does not seem they met in person at all while writing to each other. This love she had shaped her writing for the good, and they got married in secret on September 12, 1846. The only person who had a problem, however, was her