And then she goes on to describe her love as freedom, "I love thee freely, as men strive for Right" and purity, "I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise." It seems as though she is proclaiming not only her freedom in loving Robert but that she freely loves him and purely.

In the next lines she speaks of this love as a renewal of herself and, in a sense, she feels reborn from her "old griefs" and, again she speaks of her love as pure "…and with my childhood's faith." She also speaks of being once lost, "I love thee with a love I seemed to lover with my lost saints" and that when she places all of herself in her newfound love in Robert, "smiles, tears, of all my life!" So if God will permit, her love will not die with her but live on and- free from all of human's limitations- love him even better after she is gone, "and if God choose, I shall...

It speaks clearly of how love should be, glorious, pure, simple, and undying. Love is a proclamation of a person's being and that is why it is both simple and complicated at the same time. Nevertheless, as with all things that are intangible, love is to be believed in at all cost, if not, what a sad and desperate world this would be.
References

Author Unknown. "Unit 2: Reading British Literature- the Voices of England." (1990).

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Mermin, Dorothy "Elizabeth Barrett Browning Through 1844: Becoming a Woman Poet." Studies in English Literature (Rice) 26.4 (1986): 713. Academic Source Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2009.