One of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous poems that she ever wrote is called How Do I Love You? It was published in 1850. Just over 10 years before his death and this is often called his best poem he ever wrote. At this time in her life Elizabeth had just denounced her father and was now married to Robert Browning. In the first line of the poem it says “how do I love you? Let me count the ways. “This lays the foundation of poetry. The big question is how she loves the man in her life or in this case Robert Browning. The second half of the first line tells the reader that she will count the ways she loves him. In the second line it says "I love you in the depth, breadth and height" Elizabeth describes her love using a because no one would want to be forced into love. There would be no true love if I were forced. The tricky part comes in the second part of the lines because that's what he used to describe each of them freely and purely. When he says freely, how men strive for good, he implies that people try to do the right thing of their own free will. But most people strive to do good because they think they should, not because they want to. So maybe she doesn't love him as much as she's been told. She may feel like she should love him. In line eight, he says purely, as they turn away from praise. What she is talking about is a modest kind of love which implies that she does not want praise for her poems about love or for her love for Robert. Love without wanting anything. In lines nine and ten he says "I love you with the passion brought to bear in my old sorrows and with the faith of my childhood", what he means to say is that he loves him as if a child loves their parent. The kind of love that is pure and