“How can I love you?” ” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning and “Parting at Morning” by Robert Browning all share the same theme, love. The biographical information, symbols, setting, and theme sustained in these three poems will be discussed. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the eldest of eleven children and was born in 1806 to a wealthy and authoritarian father” (Browning 1). His [Browning's] family owned a large estate in Herefordshire, England (Sonnet 43). At the age of four, she began reading and writing verse (Sonnet 43). “When she was fourteen, Browning’s father secretly published her epic, ‘The Battle of Marathon: A Poem’” (Browning 1). “Browning injured her spine in a horse riding accident around this time, but she continued to study poetry” (Browning 1). This injury resulted in a chronic cough that she would have to deal with for the rest of her life (Sonnet 43). It was published anonymously in 1826 and 1833 (Browning 1). Elizabeth's father had made a lot of money from the Jamaican sugar plantations, but there were serious financial losses in 1832 (Sonnet 43). They had to sell their house and move to London in 1832 (Sonnet 43). In the 1840s, she met another poet, Robert Browning (Browning 1). They chose Florence, Italy, hoping that the warm weather would help Elizabeth with her cough (Sonnet 43). In 1846, Robert and Elizabeth Browning fled to Italy and settled in Florence. (Browning 1). Due to a severe cold, Elizabeth died in Florence in 1861, when she was 55 (Sonnet 43). Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London, to Robert Browning and Sarah Anne Wiedemann in 1812 (Browning 23). The first Robert Browning owned a library which his son used from an early age (Browning...... middle of paper ......Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are represented by the traditional love poems "Meeting at Night,” “Parting at Morning” and “How Do I Love Thee?,” which is one of the most often quoted poems in the English language” (Kirszner and Mandell 904) “In one of the two poems: “ Meeting at Night' and 'Parting at Morning' - it is concerned with the efforts of lovers to separate and the necessity of separation" (Odden 167, Robert and Elizabeth Browning are excellent examples of this). is love, as well as some of their poems). discussed “How I Love You by Elizabeth Barrett Browning” Meeting at Night by Robert Browning and “Parting at Morning” by Robert Browning have been extensively researched...