Question

2. In "How Do I Love Thee?" the author Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses hyperbole to

Answer 1

Answer:

Hyperbole is used to add emphasis to the idea of love.

Explanation:

How do I lo Thee? is a poem written by British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, it is also known as Sonnet 43 and appears in The Sonnets from the Portuguese. A hyperbole is the exaggeration of language to add emphasis to what the speaker wants to mention.

In the poem, this rhetorical device works to emphasize how love is even bigger than the speaker and what she can say. We can see it when she says "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height", indicating that the object is loved in every possible way. Another example of hyperbole is when the speaker says "I love thee with the breath/Smiles, tears all of my life." Continuing with this rhetorical device, the speaker emphasizes the idea of loving the object even after dead at the very end of the poem, where the last line says "I shall but love thee better after dead". This line also means that there is an afterlife where the speaker can continue loving the object.