The Sonnet XLI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was built around a Central Paradox. The speaker was at one point talking about life, and then she talks about death and how ironic it was on how these two came about. She describes the two as if they are one, life and death.
The author’s purpose in writing the paragraph is to point out the differences and similarities, to compare and contrast.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
and therefore is winged cupid painted blind
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