Read the following excerpt from Sonnet XLIII, 'What lips my lips have kissed,
and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Which statement best explains how the poet's use of figurative language in
this excerpt conveys the tone?
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A. She creates an eerie tone by using metaphor to compare past
lovers to ghosts.
B. She separates lips and arms from their owners to create an
impersonal tone.
O
C. She uses personification to give the rain human qualities and to
give the poem a nostalgic tone.
O
D. She repeats the words "forgotten" and "unremembered" to reveal a
tone of indifference.

Sonnet 43 expresses the poet's intense love for her husband-to-be, Robert Browning. So intense is her love for him, she says, that it rises to the spiritual level. She loves him freely, without coercion; she loves him purely, without expectation of personal gain.

Why is it called Sonnet 43?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning chose this title to give the impression that she had translated the work from the Portuguese and would therefore avoid any controversy.

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