In an era plagued with the enchanting mist of romance and art, Elizabeth Browning, like many other poets, impelled her romanticist spirit in many of her poems. She achieves this through many linguistic techniques which further convey her love; this is clearly shown through sonnet 43. “Let me count the ways” In the opening sentence of sonnet 43, Browning subjects the nature of her relationship and her position within this relationship. This is done through her request to her lover to “let” her count the ways she loves him. This implies that she is in need of his constant approval, even in this miniscule commotion. This heavily reflects the submissive nature of love during the era the sonnet is written in, Although, Browning manages to express her love as subservient but still gentle as the tone of the request is tender. Furthermore, a running theme within the sonnet is love. Love is shown to be everything. Loving the much-loved is the way that Browning knows she belongs, and by listing the perpetually countless different types of love that she feels, and to figure out the connections between these different kinds of love, becomes a new way for browning to express her affection and admiration for "thee." Browning jerks this theme by posing a question that the entire sonnet will go on to answer: "How do I love thee?" It's thought-provoking that the interrogative word here is "how," rather than "why" or "when." This proves that this is not particularly a rhetorical question, because Browning does answer it, but it manoeuvres in a comparable way to a rhetorical question because it familiarises the sonnet and it captivates the reader. Additionally, what captivates the reader further is that by showing her lover the countless ways “how” she loves him, she expresses the large extensity of her love for him, once more articulating the endless magnitude of their love. Moreover, Browning undertakes the ability to convey her love as a buoyant love. This is done through her using the Sonnet form. The term "sonnet" derives from the Italian word “Sonetto” which relatedly means "little song” and the interesting choice of her select of Sonnet form is to reinforce the melodious nature of love, just as a little song is optimistically melodious.On the other hand, Browning introduces the obscurer subject of mortality, which gives the sonnet a more realistic perspective regarding love. This realism is a subjective, underlying theme of sonnet 43 as it was rarely considered in the mind of a typical male/female of the time, as a commoner strongly believed that true love would have an unrealistic eternity, and it will only last as long as the pair is well alive and together, whereas in Browning’s case, death does not do them part. What's further is that it is profoundly known God's power over the soul in death seems to be the only thing that browning recognises as stronger than the love she has for her dear lover. The virtuous position of God over people is also notably implied and taken into consideration, that God was the only thing standing in-between Browning her lover. This is done through the positioning of her phrases – as an illustration of this, you can see that in the last two lines of the sonnet, she puts “Smiles, tears, of all my life!” a frivolous expression of how she loves him, followed by “—and, if God choose,” Which puts God and his power in-between her expression of how she loves him and her last expression of love within the sonnet… “I shall but love thee better after death” Almost as though, Browning’s lover is sentence ‘A’ (“Smiles, Tears, of all my life!”) God is in the middle, which is the only entity in existence that stands between sentence ‘A’ and sentence ‘B’; Browning (I shall but love thee better after death). This point presents to us how Browning perceives her love as forbidden in a holy sense, which was the most alluring aspect of it, since romanticist literature during the Victorian era constantly beheld the undertones of a forbidden romance (E.g. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) , in the process everlastingly glamorising it. Still, she hopes that her love will only grow in the afterlife, instead of fading or changing, In turn expressing her devotion to this eternal love.As a final point, Browning uses hyphens to represent the expected challenges and pauses that have and will undoubtedly face their love; however she ends it by declaring the immortality of their love. Her final declaration is put there to specifically proclaim her dedication and the stability and strength she believes their love emits; she recognises the trials and tribulations, but expresses the strong belief that their flove will eventually overcome them and prosper evermore.