How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The speaker declares that he or she loves the addressee with “passion” (line 9). What was this passion once put to use in?

Question

im in 7th help!

Answer 1

According to the poem, she once put these passions to use "In her old griefs" (line 10), so she seems to be taking the negative energy she once directed towards her old, unhappy memories, and directing that energy toward loving the person being addressed in the poem.