Whenever anyone mentions anything to do with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43 I think of Lurlene McDaniel's novel entitled How Do I Love Thee. I read this book many years ago, long before I knew how famous the poem, How Do I Love Thee, is, and I fell in love with the poem for it was written at the very start of the novel. Now that I actually understand the poem and am becoming a loving and lovable young woman, I appreciate it just all that much more. I always think of the classic romance story from The Titanic and how fitting it is with this poem, as Rose and Jack truly loved each other "to the depth and breadth and height". As well, I think of my own current young love, and I hope that someday "I shall but love thee better after death."
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