Aaron MeadowsMrs. GibsonEnglishJanuary 28, 2015Sonnets from PortugueseIn "Sonnets from Portuguese", Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses all kinds of literary devices including imagery and poetic elements such as metaphorical phrases, she even goes beyond the confines of a normal sonnet, again using these devices to translate her feelings enthusiasts. Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43" from Sonnets from the Portuguese is an Italian sonnet like the others in this collection that makes up the book, it does not follow the "traditional" pattern of asking a question in the first 8 lines and answering it in the last 6 lines. Browning instead presents his question in the first line and answers in all subsequent lines, to which, for example, he decided to use an abstraction in the line "For the purposes of ideal being and grace", explaining the great scope of the his love. What he means to say is that his love transcends even beyond the supposed meaning of the earth and even into the heavens above. Emily Browning also makes other comparisons: she states that her love is like a kind of religious passion she felt for the saints of her Christian faith, and that her love is apparently as passionate as what she affectionately calls her "old sorrows." The strongest metaphors he produces are in lines 12 and 13: "I love you with the breath, the smiles, the tears of my whole life!" This metaphor really puts his feelings on the table if others haven't already. Emily Barrett Browning has proven herself to be a fantastic poet through these poems. Thanks to the incredible work Browning did on these poems, readers are now more fully able to grasp the passion and love this woman had for her lover. Maybe they can even connect if they have a lover of their own who they adore with their “breath, smiles and tears.” In this collection of sonnets, love is essentially and apparently everything. It is very widespread in every sonnet contained. It's easy to see that loving her beloved, her husband, is one of the ways she really knows he exists. He tries to list the many different types of love he so obviously feels, and also to understand the many different types of relationships among these vast and diverse types of love. Through his efforts, this seems to become a new way of fully expressing his admiration and vast affection for her