Sonnet 29 - I Think of Thee! - Browning

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Brief overview of this poem
From a woman to lover; obsessive thoughts and fantasies occupy her mind
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'My thoughts do twine and bud/...
...About thee, as wild vines, about a tree'
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'Straggling green...
...which hides the wood'
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'Renew thy prescence;...
...as a strong tree should'
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'Drop heavily down-...
...burst, shattered everywhere!'
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Form of poem
Sonnet, volta comes early, imperatives
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Context of poem
About Browning (When we Two Parted), married in secret, disowned by her father after he found out
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Themes
Desire, distance, longing, nature, joy, passion, obsessiveness
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Feelings
Obsession, desperation, jealousy, passion, desire
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Compare with
Letters from Yorkshire, Love's Philosophy, Porphyria's Lover
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'My thoughts do twine and bud/...

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...About thee, as wild vines, about a tree'

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'Straggling green...

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Card 4

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'Renew thy prescence;...

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Card 5

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'Drop heavily down-...

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Ella Owrid

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really good but Robert Browning wrote porphyiras lover not when we too parted

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