What are the similarities and differences in the way love is presented in the poems?
“First Love “and “Sonnet 43” both love to different depths using their narrative. The poem “First love” looks at the emotions evolving around sudden love while “Sonnet 43” focuses on the devotion and maturity of a more experienced lover.
The opening rhetorical question in ‘Sonnet 43’ reflects on the narrator’s ability to express and organize her feelings of love. She collates her own answer with “Let me count the ways”, implying that the structure of the poem will be in the form of a list that charts her emotions of passionate devotion and positive obsession.