Love and Relationships: Sonnet 29- I think of Thee
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- Love and Relationships: Sonnet 29
- Summary
- The speaker is preoccupied by thoughts of the one she loves.
- She describes how these thoughts seem to cling to him and multiply so that the image of him in her mind's eye is almost blotted out.
- She would far rather he was with her. Then she would not have this profusion of thoughts.
- She calls him to come to her.
- If he were near, her thoughts be scattered.
- His presence would mean she would have no need to to think of him.
- Key Aspects of the Poem
- The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet written in an octave and a sestet told in first person and addressed to the loved one.
- It is lyric poem.
- Its main themes are passionate love and separation.
- It uses striking images of nature.
- The thought is passionate and seems autobiographical.
- Key Language: Vine and Tree
- In the first two lines, the poet uses a simile from the natural world to convey the intensity of the speakers love, whose thoughts are "wild vines"(2). This imagery conveys the clinging nature of her thoughts.
- Not only do her thoughts cling to the "tree" (2), the metaphor that represents the masculine lover and conveys robustness and solidarity, but they also grow abundantly.
- In the first two lines, the poet uses a simile from the natural world to convey the intensity of the speakers love, whose thoughts are "wild vines"(2). This imagery conveys the clinging nature of her thoughts.
- Key Quote: The Final Line
- Read on its own, the final line - "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee" might seen contrary. However there is no contradiction.
- In the final line, the poet no longer needs to be overwhelmed by thoughts of her absent lover once he is present.
- The first six words of the final line contrast the opening words, where she is overwhelmed with thoughts of him in his absence.
- Inevitably, we are drawn back to these opening words, and the poet may even have intended that we return to it to create a particular effect.
- The first six words of the final line contrast the opening words, where she is overwhelmed with thoughts of him in his absence.
- In the final line, the poet no longer needs to be overwhelmed by thoughts of her absent lover once he is present.
- Read on its own, the final line - "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee" might seen contrary. However there is no contradiction.
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