If_Though_Must_Love_Me_Response

If Though Must Love Me Response Poetry to me is a way to express thoughts or feelings in an artistic and meaningful way. The poem “If Thou Must Love Me” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is more or less a love poem that sends many messages to me about love. A few of Browning’s messages are that true love is forever, love transcends image, and the use of love is too common. The first message in Browning’s poem, true love is forever is directly supported. Line 14, “love’s eternity” says that love is forever. The whole poem talks about how sometimes love is called love but may not necessarily be true love in fact, and thus won’t last forever. “Except for loves sake only”, line 2, means that if one loves the person for love of that whole person then the love is genuine and will forever exist. The second message in Browning’s poem is that love transcends image. One cannot love someone because of some physical beauty, “Do not say ‘I love her for her smile-her look’ ”, she doesn’t desire to be loved for this reason. Nor does she want to be loved because of her manner of speech “Do love, true, poem, forever, things, because, people, way, say, person, message, loved, browning’s, browning, wrong, whole, transcends, thy, thus, themselves, supported, superficial, says, perhaps, one, messages, meaningful, loves, line, last, image, high, first, fact