can anyone help me explain the poem, how do i love thee? by elizabeth barrett browning?

I love this poem... it was the first poem i ever memorized... anyway, the poem itself is pretty self explanatory... she's speaking of her love for robert browning... but it's so appealing because she talks of it not just in eternal and universal terms but in all the little instances as well... "I love thee to the depth, breadth and height my soul can reach" - the big way we like to express love, and "i love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need"- obviously the small but significant ways we like the one we're with...

i hope this helps...

according to the psychic edgar cayce liz was an reincarnation of the greek diana and liz's hubby was a reincarnation of then diana's bro and back then there had been jealousy on his part for diana's accomplishments.... now as to the poem methinks it beautifully states the case of how true love can transform a soul i might add here a line from the last line of a sonnett attributed to shakespeare but i stand with some who think shakespeare was a front man for a secret society of aristrocrats of which francis bacon was the head and the real author ... anyways, here is the line love's fire heats water, water cools not love.... methinks it is an alchemical symbolic thing goin on thar:) OH IN TERMS OF NATURAL I HAD THIS PASTE LOADED UP FOR ANOTHER YAHOO ANSWER BUT IT MIGHT BE OF NOTE HERE TOO.. 1Co 15:46 Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual,.... As the apostle before proves the distinction of a natural and spiritual body, and gives instances of both in the two principal men in the world, the first and the last; and points out the difference between them, the one being animated, and having life given unto it, the other animating, and giving life to others; proceeds to observe the order of these, how that one was before the other; the spiritual body, though the more perfect and most excellent, yet was not first in being: but that which is natural; Adam's animal body was before Christ's spiritual body: and afterwards that which is spiritual; yea, even Christ's animal, or natural body, was before his spiritual one; his body taken from the virgin, and formed in her womb, and in which he lived here on earth, was an animal body, as before observed; and upon his resurrection, it commenced a spiritual one; being the same in substance as the former, only different in qualities; and just so it is, and will be, with the bodies of the saints'; which is the apostle's design and view, in observing this order; the natural body is first, and then the spiritual; it is first a natural body, as generated and nourished, as weak and dying, and it is afterwards a spiritual one, when raised from the dead.

Stop cheating! You know the answer. Just read it slowly and concentrate. Asking others to 'think' for you is about as lazy as you can get. Now get to it!!

and good luck my friend!!

She talks about his love one that one day he left her well i don't remember it very well that was to long since i read it.

she wrote it to describe the many ways she loved robert browning.

There is no secret code or hidden agenda to that poem. It is what it is. Read it again. m

she's trying to express and immortalize her bounteous love, capture it in words, images and rhythm

she's just saying how she should love someone who means so much to her.