Sonnet 43   How do I love thee?  By Elizabeth Barrett Browning      How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight  For the ends of Being …

Sir Thomas Wyatt  Poem 'Whoso  List to Hunt?'   Summery The sonnet opens with an inquiry to the reader, asking who partakes in the chase, and bringing up that the artist knows a commendable rear (female deer). He then, …

I Being Born a Woman and Distressed   By Edna St. Vincent Millay   Analysis 'I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed' is a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay, likewise known by its more drawn out title 'I, being a lady a…

The Windhover   By Gerard Manley Hopkins     Summery  The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a semi-heartfelt, strict sonnet committed to Christ. It is a typical Hopkinsian poem that starts with portrayal of nature and closure…

Remember By Christina Rossetti   Summary and Analysis Remember by Rossetti is an exemplary Victorian sonnet written in 1849 and distributed in 1862 in her first volume, 'Troll Market and Other Sonnets'. It is a Petrarch…

Sonnet 116 by Walliam Shakespeare     Summery This piece endeavors to characterize love, by letting both know it and isn't. In the primary quatrain, the speaker says that affection "the marriage of genuine personalit…

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer            Summary and Analysis   Section 1 Summery In the principal half of the sonnet, the speaker thinks back on his excursions through Homer's epic universe. He isn't quick to…

Sonnet              Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth   Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would be so soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its m…