Did you know that there was 574 letters between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Different events happen in every person’s life. Since those events change people, they begin to see or do things differently. Elizabeth Browning was an example of this. The major events in Elizabeth’s life began to greatly influence her poetry.
One event that influenced Elizabeth’s poetry was illness. For example, Alicia Kim writes, “During these years in London, however, her ill health worsened, forcing her to spend a year with her favorite brother Edward . . .” (Source 1). Then Elizabeth explained in her poem, “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight” (Source 3). This example showed that her