My Poetry Page

How Do I Love Thee?
 

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

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 everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

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.
 

 

あなたをいかに愛しているか

私に数えさせてください。

 愛します、私の魂のゆける限りの深さ・広さ・高さまで。

 視界を越えて、生きていることの目的と、

あこがれの優美さを手探るときに。

愛します、お日さまのもと、燭光のもと、

日々のもっとも静かなてしごとと同じなまでの当たり前さで。

 愛します、くびきを解かれて奔放に。

人々が権利を求めて闘うように。

 愛します、純粋にけがれなく。

人々が賞賛に背を向けるように。

愛します、私の旧い悲しみの中に再燃する激情と、

子供時代のひたむきさで。

 愛します、私の失われた聖人たちと共に失いかけた、

ひとつの愛をこころにともし、

――愛します、わたしの生涯の息吹と微笑みと涙とともに――

そして、もし神様がお許しならば、

生を終えてもなおいっそうあなたのことを愛しましょう

 

 

 

 

Audio Version

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xnz3y_jammy-how-do-i-love-thee_fun

   

 
I. About the Poem

                            

How do I love thee? is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed

by Michael Gordon. It stars Jackie Gleason and Maureen O'Hara and is based

on Peter De Vries' 1965 novel Let Me Count the Ways.

om Waltz, a college professor, finds out that Stanley, his father, is in Lourdes,

France. He quickly catches a fight there over his wife Marion's objections.

Stanley is a furniture mover, happily married to Elsie but tempted by Lena,

an artist. No actual affair takes place, but Lena does give him a poem as a parting gift that

 Stanley later enters in a contest. He wins a $10,000 prize and

donates the money to Tom's department at the university. Tom is rewarded with

a promotion over his rival, Littlefield.Trouble develops

 when the "original" poem is exposed

as beingone of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets. Littlefield gets

the job and Tom's reputation is sullied. Stanley prays for divi

ne intervention and Littlefield promptlydies. S

tanley flies to Lourdes to atone and pray for forgiveness, but is

relieved when Tom informs him that Littlefield's death occurred b

efore his request for help from above.

 

Works Cited （参考文献）

•  Website Title: Wikipedia


• Article Title: How Do I Love Thee?


• Publisher: Wikimedia Foundation


• Date Accessed: April 26, 2016 


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II. About the Poet

first published in 1988, is a biography of the English

 poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which won the Heinemann

 Award  in 1989.Forster draws on newly discovered letters and

 papers that shed light on the poet's life before she met and

eloped with Robert Browning, and rewrites the myth of the

invalid poet guarded by an ogre-like father, to give a more

-nuanced picture of an active, difficult woman who was

complicit in her own virtual imprisonment. It remained the

most-detailed published biography of the poet in 2003,and was

 one of the best known of Forster's biographies in 2016.

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - alliteration(頭韻の繰り返し)

In this poem,Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses alliteration.
she repeat “I love” at the beginning of a sentence.for example,

・I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
・I love thee to the level of everyday's
・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

・I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

those sentence bigin “I love”


A. Reaction Point - structure(詩の組織パターン)
 
In this poem,  Fourteen line poetry in four lines,
four lines and six lines.


A. Reaction Point - metaphor
(異なる種類の別のもので、１つのことを直接比較する比喩)

In　this poem,"How are you being loved?"
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning singing like a counting song by various rulers.
For example,

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

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
ith 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

Like this,those sentence are used metapher.

 
My General Opinion

 

I like this poem because I think this poem is
 best love story that I have saw so far.
This poem is interesting because it is used a lot of metaphor.
I understnd how auther loved him.
 

 

Self-Interest

Hello.classmates.

 I am Misaki Hashimoto. I study in the Department of Arts and Letters at Kyoritsu
Women's University. My course is English and American Literature. My literary interest is related to movies, actually. I am particularly interested in movies from Japan. My favorite director is Nakajima Tetsuya. His Representative works are Kokuhaku, I watched it many times.
This movie is very deep. So, it makes me think about various things. But  under this movie The star is Takako Matsu.
She gives a very good performance in a work. This movie's original is novel written by Kanae Minato, She is famous for this literary work. Kokuhaku is story that a mistress retaliates for the student who murdered her daughter.