Coxhoe Essays

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Petrarchan Sonnet, “How do I Love Thee?,” sets out to define how she loves her husband by introducing and developing her desire to do so in the octave, and in the sestet, by expanding upon and settling that desire with connections to her life’s experiences. To better understand and analyze the sonnet, a brief history of Barrett’s life is necessary. Analyzing the octave is crucial in order to see its development and how it eventually connects with the sestet. The analyzation

One of the most interesting facts about Elizabeth Barrett Browning is that she began writing poetry at a young age of six. She was born and raised in Coxhoe Hall, Durham England (“Elizabeth”). Browning suffered a nervous disorder that caused weakness, headaches, and loss of consciousness that would last the rest of her life(“Elizabeth”). Two years after Elizabeth Browning was diagnosed with her nervous disorder, her brother Edward drowned which aggravated her poor health issue(“Elizabeth”). In