I have chosen “How Do I Love Thee?” for two main reasons: I feel really identify with this love poem and it reminds me of one of the best teachers I have ever met during my teacher training course, Mrs. Liliana Magrassi. She passed away few years ago but I can still remember the first time I read this beautiful sonnet with her in a workshop called “Language Through Literature”.

In this sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning shows the love and affection of one person to another in a beautiful and delicate way. She depicts a love which is to extend beyond this lifetime. She is able to take the meaning and value of love to a much higher, even spiritual, level. Throughout her words, she effectively warms up our hearts by showing her passion to her beloved husband and how openly and freely she trusts on him.

This poem can be related with “To The Lighthouse” since the kind of love depicted in this poem is similar to one that Mrs. Ramsay expresses to her husband and family.

Once you have read this poem, it is hard to forget it. It makes you feel completely alive. We are left with the enviable feeling of love, stuck deeply in our hearts. For me, it is a quite magical sonnet that explores the abstract power of love and helps us believe that true love can last forever.