Sonnet XIV Analysis

Author: Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Type: Poetry Views: 1222

If thou must love me, let it be for nought

Except for love's sake only. Do not say

'I love her for her smile--her look--her way

Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought

That falls in well with mine, and certes brought

A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'--

For these things in themselves, Beloved, may

Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,

May be unwrought so. Neither love me for

Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--

A creature might forget to weep, who bore

Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby !

But love me for love's sake, that evermore

Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

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Malak al-hazmi
in my opinion , Elizabeth is a sensable woman who realzied the truth love is the eternal love . She does't want her beloved to love her just because she is beautiful and just to show her that he is symbethized with her for this love is changable and not eternal.

| Posted on 2009-11-12 | by a guest

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this poem is the most romantic poem of all. Elizabeth is trying to say that to love someone for how their personality is not for how they look or how they laugh or anything like that LOVE ME FOR ME AND NOT ANYTHING OR ANYBODY ELSE!

| Posted on 2009-05-20 | by a guest

.: Analysis by Monis Akhtar :.

This is a very touching poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browinig. The poem is very personal and romatic and is a reply to the poem "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning.

In this poem, Elizabeth is sayin that don't love me because of my smile or because of the way I write or speak. Dont love me for any sake but love's sake (inner feeling that can not be described).

Elizabeth is a paralyzed woman and is very self-aware of her condition. We see this when she says "Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks". Here she is saying that dont love me because you pity me (making me happy and 'wiping my cheeks dry'). LOVE ME ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE AND NO OTHER.

thats my quick analysis.
thanks.

| Posted on 2006-01-22 | by Approved Guest

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