Perception, Feeling and Thought of Love and Early Marriage Life as found in Elizabeth Barrett Browning�s Sonnets from the Portuguese

This graduating paper analyzes perception, feeling and thought of love and early marriage life as found in Elizabeth Barrett Browning�s Sonnets from the Portuguese. The objectives of this research are to discover the author�s perception, feelings, and thoughts of love and to observe the early marriage life of the author and her husband depicted in it. This research uses expressive theory to help finding the perception, feeling, and thought of the author depicted in it. Also, it is used to explore the life experiences of the author as found in the sonnets. The primary data or the main object of the research is the literary work itself that is Browning�s Sonnets from the Portuguese. The secondary data are the biography and letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and also her husband, Robert Browning. The results of this research show that the perceptions of love are the products of Elizabeth�s expressive act in conceiving the love itself with deep understanding which involves the realization of position and respect of her lover and herself. However, her ideas of love are defeated by her emotion of love. She expresses this with hyperbolic delightful expression by glorifying her lover merit. Moreover, she is encouraged by the power of love to make consideration in her life to choose her own course of life that she surrenders her life to her lover by agreeing to marry Robert Browning which shows her greatest expressive act of love. Thus, love has given her the opportunity to gain happiness in her life time