How does E.B. Browning treat love in her poems?

When we read her sonnets we fell her insecurity. Still she is amazingly frank and direct I her expression of love towards Robert Browning. She expresses her passion for Browning but in a controlled, modified and artistic way. The repetition of that four letter word ‘Love’ is the something which she wants to hear from her beloved time and again. She knows that the repetition of such an amorous word may seem to be ‘a cuckoo song’ to her beloved. But she gives reason in favor of that cuckoo song. Just as a beautiful panoramic scenery of a valley and wood is incomplete without the strain of the cuckoo, she is also incomplete

In the sonnet number 22 E.B. Browning considers her and her beloved as birds of heaven. In this sonnet, she analyzes her love towards Robert Browning from a distinctive perspective. By imagining that the ‘tow souls’ of them standing ‘face to face’ with each other, a vivid and visual sensation is created. They have nothing to hide from each other and by the power of love they get united. Such an all-consuming love they enjoy that the angels come to celebrate their love; a perfect harmony is thus created.

In this sonnet a tendency of E.B. Browning to achieve some sort of higher love could be noticed. The poet knows it well that only spiritual bond between the lovers is more eternal and prompt than mere physical relationship. With a desire to establish eternal love, she wants to conquer time and space – that is the reason why this sonnet is a spiritual one.

without the touch of her lover. Without the cuckoo song the eternal spring never adorns the world in lucrative colors. In the similar way, without the assurance from her lover, the darkness around her would not be dispelled. If the darkness becomes visible, it is only because she has her beloved beside her in ‘sickness and wealth.’

In the first eight lines of the sonnet, E.B. Browning expresses her distaste for the world where impurity prevails. She accuses the world for the disturbance it creates in the enjoyment of their love. They are, therefore, bound for heaven where the angels enchant them with perfect song. But in the later part of the poem we notice a change of mood of E.B. Browning. The world which she despises before now seems to her an ideal place to live. She is not forgetful of the reality of the world where death and darkness rounds the life of man still that worldly life

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