Sonnet 29 - "I Think Of Thee"
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- Created on: 13-05-17 19:35
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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
- Began as a bud
- She can't think of anything but him
- Blinding love
- "Straggling green which hides the wood"
- Sounds sexual (?)
- "Buds"
- "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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