The theme portrayed in the poem “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Know The Ways” connects love with death. The fear of potentially losing the love of your life to death is an event that occurs for all of us. In the poem written by Elizabeth Barret Browning, she illustrates the amount of love she has for thee to have the readers relate to the love interest. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”(2). This gives us a physical image of her love for thee to construct in our brains. She did this by using measurement connected words like depth, breadth, and height, to have us think of the love…