How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (Sonnet 43) Language and Communication Quotes

This poem almost has a topic sentence – the speaker explains her project, counting ways that she loves, in the first line. The ability to list, articulate, and communicate these different kinds of love is actually part of the way that she loves, which might make the sonnet itself one of the "ways" of loving!

Every act that the speaker takes in her life – every smile, every tear, every inhale and exhale – communicates her love for "thee" to the world.