Example:
Sonnet 43 -- E. B. Browning (EBB)
1). Background
All her life (of EBB) is bothered with 'Love'. She is from the Barnet family, a very wealthy family of a really large house estate and 12 children. She grows up with a lot love from both her parents and some friends, particularly when she suffers from the almost life-long disease and is confined to a chair after she is 15. And then, the love from a much younger man, Robert Browning, also a poet, makes her to gather all herself together and starts her adventure into the poetic world of love.
2). Literal explantion of the poem
After their secret marriage, they move to Italy and start to write poems about their love, mostly the sonnets. And in 1850, the sonnets, altogether 44, collected in the book with the title of Sonnets from the Portuguese, as her husband nicknames her as 'my little Portuguese'. Presented here is one of her sonnets from this book, that is, Sonnet 43.
Sonnet 43 -- E. B. Browning (EBB)
1). Background
All her life (of EBB) is bothered with 'Love'. She is from the Barnet family, a very wealthy family of a really large house estate and 12 children. She grows up with a lot love from both her parents and some friends, particularly when she suffers from the almost life-long disease and is confined to a chair after she is 15. And then, the love from a much younger man, Robert Browning, also a poet, makes her to gather all herself together and starts her adventure into the poetic world of love.
2). Literal explantion of the poem
After their secret marriage, they move to Italy and start to write poems about their love, mostly the sonnets. And in 1850, the sonnets, altogether 44, collected in the book with the title of Sonnets from the Portuguese, as her husband nicknames her as 'my little Portuguese'. Presented here is one of her sonnets from this book, that is, Sonnet 43.