Sonnet 29 - "I Think Of Thee"

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  • Created by: Chelski
  • Created on: 13-05-17 19:35

Sonnet 29 - "I Think Of Thee" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

COMPARE TO WHEN WE TWO PARTED

Extra detail:

  • Sonnets have 14 lines
  • Passionate and romatic love
  • Enjambment
    • Her love is continuous
  • Iambic pentameter
  • Traditional poems of what was then know as 'courtly love' - love beetween a noble woman and a knight, for example, unattainable and wholey chaste love
  • Talking directly to her husband to be
    • Makes it even more romantic
  • "I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as wild vines, about a tree, / Out out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see / Except the straggling green which hides the wood."
    • "Buds"
      • Birth, new life, growth, changes, uncertainty
    • "Leaves"
      • Fragile, change, loss, thoughts and feelings (change)
    • Nature
    • Caesura
    • Enjambment
    • Her love is wild for him - untamed
    • "Broad leaves"
      • Began as a bud
        • Metaphor for how her love for him has grown
    • She can't think of anything but him
      • Blinding love
    • "Straggling green which hides the wood"
      • Sounds sexual (?)
  • "Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee / Who art dearer, better! Rather, instantly / Renew thy presence…

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