Both elizabeth barrett browning’s “sonnet 14” and pablo neruda’s ‘sonnet 17” discuss love in terms of negatives—things that are not, or should not be, or that the poet does not know. yet both poems are powerfully positive about love itself. compare each poem’s ideas about love as they progress through the poem, including how the negatives play a part in the poem. answer in two or more paragraphs

Browning's and Neruda's sonnets present love as a feeling or sensation that should not grip to anything impermanent or passing. They try to say what love is by expressing to us what it shouldn't be.

Browning presents the following negatives like smile, look, gentle manners, and the need for relief. She emphasizes that these things may pass. Even if they are usually understood as emblems of love, she wants somewhat better and steadier than that. She wants to be loved for love's sake, as love is everlasting. 

On the other hand, for Neruda, love is somewhat he can't define by associating it to exact, precise, well-known things or feelings. It is inexpressible and incomprehensible, and as a result it is indefinite. It escapes any kind of effort to grip it by influences to this world.

this need to be done in 15 minutes kind of passed the 15 minutes by now sorry dude but i can list some of my thoughts down for you : (