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Elizabeth Browning opens her poem with ''How do I love thee?''?

how does she answer this question?

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  • libby
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    She answers with a steaming pile of hyperbole, enough to make one vomit! TRUE!

  • Well, here's the poem, so you can see it:

    How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

    I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

    My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

    For the ends of being and ideal grace.

    I love thee to the level of every day's

    Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

    I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

    I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

    I love thee with the passion put to use

    In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

    I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

    With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

    Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

    I shall but love thee better after death.

    My answer would be to look at what she says immediately after that question in the poem and then to list a few of them.

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