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What specific images in Sonnet 43 support the idea that Browning loves her husband with her entire being?

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The poet uses images of dimensions to express the pervasive nature of her love: “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight.”

Barrett Browning uses images that convey basic needs to impress that her love is like a necessity: “I love thee to the level of everyday's / Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.”

Barrett Browning uses images of abstract feelings to convey the sincerity and purity of her love: “I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; / I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.”

She uses images of implicit faith to convey the strength of her love: “I love thee with a love I seemed to lose / With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath.”

She mentions old grief and childhood faith to imply the purity and intensity of sorrow and faith in childhood: “I love thee with the passion put to use / In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.”

(Plato's answer)

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In my opinion, the images that support this idea are: "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach" and "I love thee with the breath, / Smiles, tears, of all my life!" Those images describe her all-encompassing love for her husband, suggesting that she loves him to the greatest extent a human being is capable of.
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