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must trustworthy and faithful for a woman. Poem entitled How Do I Love Thee is one of Sonnet from Portuguese. It talks about how Elizabeth expressing her deep love to
the Robert Browning. It expressed that nothing can compare with true love. It says that love is pure and true. This poem is heartfelt, romantic, loving, elegant, and
simple. Both of the poems explained that how a woman wants to be loved truly by a man that should fight for win a woman’s heart, and how a woman clarified her true
love to a man. Based on the description above the writer decided to take the poems to be
analyzed, as they are very famous poems. Both of the poem are some ways for Elizabeth Barrett Browning to express her love to Robert Browning started from the
first she met until she fell in love with him. It is interested to analyze how a poem fall to another, it means that one poem has a connection to another. Here, the writer tries
to find the passions between the meaning of the poems. The poems explores much about woman’s emotions and how love influences their life. The poet gives any
messages which reflected in her attitude and also struggle to get her hope. So people can learn more about human problems and difficulties, especially problems that are
faced by women in the world.
1.2 Problem of the Study
From the preceding background, there are some problems which interest to discuss in this study.
1. How is woman’s passion to be loved truly pictured in The Lady’s ‘Yes’ ?
2. How is woman’s passion to love pictured in How Do I Love Thee? ?
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1.3 Object of the Study
Based on the formulated problems, the writer would like to achieve the following objectives:
1. To describe how is the woman’s passion to be loved truly pictured in The Lady’s
‘Yes’. 2.
To describe how is the woman’s passion to love pictured in How Do I Love Thee?
1.4 Scope of the Study
To avoid overlapping explanation, the writer makes a clear scope and delimitation, so that the analysis will be focusable. There are many aspects which can
be analyzed in these poems, but the writer deliberated discuss into more detail about a woman’s passion to be loved and how to love in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
selected poems. Therefore, beyond the scope of this, the writer would not describe it extensively.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The finding of this study can be very useful in the area of literary values. By studying the woman’s passions in the poems, we could explore significance of the
study as follows: Theoretically, this study is aimed for further literature study and also the
passions through the poems. Practically, to give input for the readers who are interested in poem, in order to understand the poem better and to add our knowledge
about the passionate of woman.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Poem
There are many branches of literary works as short stories, novels, poems, and dramas. All of them become the main discussion and teaching topics in school
and university levels. Before people attempt to define poem, they need to analyze every line to understand meanings behind the poem. Some words are more definable
than others. A poem has deep meanings in every words, it depends how a poet tries to explain many things in life into a poem. People try to analyze poem because in a
poem contains many specific elements and how these specific elements relate to daily life. A theme is the top point in a poem, because a poet makes a poem based on
specific theme and a reader tries to understand and analyze the poem to get the whole point of the poem. Once a poem is understood at its firsthand, a reader can try to
define it. Samuel Johnson as cited by tarigan 1984: 5 describes that “the poem as
spontaneous expression of feelings, which full of power and based on emotion get together in peace”. From the explanation above, the writer can say that a poem is an
expressing deep feeling which is full of power and based on emotion that the writer has experienced. Yet, the power embedded inside the poem is not easily being
understood by reading it at once. Speaking about poem, the World Book Encyclopedia 1966: 563 explains
that “many people find rich rewards in the magic of words that capture thought, the starling image or metaphor, and the seer fun of rhyming. All life, all things seen and
