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The best I think of thee (Sonnet 29) study guide on the planet. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices.
- Summary
- Analysis of Sonnet 29– ‘I Think of Thee!’
- Historical Background
Sonnets, typically, read like a monologue, a heart-to-heart between the heart where the reader is privy to the narrator’s struggles to enunciate how clearly they love the object of their affections, and Barrett Browning’s work is no different. It is a celebration of love, a reiteration of love, a reckless abandonment of the tenets of restraint and ...
Lines 1-4
Many sonnet poems were written from the heart, and so there are no names mentioned; the reader has to guess, through history, and other fragments of information, where that affection is stemming from, and whom it is aimed towards; this is the same for this sonnet, which opens with the line ‘thee’, and explains ‘I think of thee! – my thoughts do twine and bud’. We can safely assume that the ‘thee’ in ‘Sonnet 29‘ refers to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s husband-to-be, Robert Browning, though ‘the...
Lines 5-8
When reading ‘Sonnet 29‘ as a whole, one might be struck by the apparent awe with which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is struck – notice, for example, in this stanza; ‘yet, o my palm-tree, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’; it is almost as though she can’t believe her own luck in finding love, in her own feelings. The comparison to a ‘palm-tree’ once again brings up allusions of Keats, the master of the poetic sensual, of the animalistic in nature; a palm-tree, as w...
Lines 9-11
Once more, the imagery here starts peaceful, but also slightly overwhelming – Elizabeth Barrett Browning instructs her lover to ‘rustle thy boughs’ and ‘set thy trunk all bare’, a meaning which perhaps cannot be wholly understood on its own, and needs further reading to determine, but one can take it as Elizabeth Barrett Browning insisting that Robert Barrett Browning be – present, and obvious, and masculine, forceful about his love for her; she wants him to appear as he is (‘set thy trunk al...
The title ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ stem from two things: one, Elizabeth Barrett Browningthought that the poems themselves were too personal to put her name on, and so pretended that the poems were a translation of some work in Portuguese; the selection of Portuguese itself as the language was probably due to her husband, who reputedly called h...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 29, otherwise known as ‘I think of thee’ is from her publication ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, which was written between 1845-1846 and published in 1850.
Sonnet 29 is a poem about the speaker’s borderline obsessive thoughts about their lover. The idea of vines encircling a tree is used as a metaphor for the speaker’s growing love. Eventually they realise that it is better to be physically present rather than thinking about him. Synopsis.
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27 de set. de 2023 · 'I think of thee' is Sonnet 29 in 'Sonnets from the Portuguese', Barrett Browning's groundbreaking sonnets in Petrarchan form which follow her emotional changes in her relationship with Robert Browning. Metaphor and simile combine, as tree and vine, thoughts disappearing as the two become closer.
16 de fev. de 2024 · The speaker and her illustrious suitor share a special closeness that keeps them together. The speaker of this sonnet permits her thoughts to create a drama featuring a tether that will bind the two lovers into a unique bond. Sonnet 29 "I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud".
7 de jul. de 2020 · Barrett Browning’s natural imagery of the ‘wild vines’ that ‘twine and bud’ ‘about a tree’ signify how natural loving him is for her, as though it is second-nature, as well as how it constantly evolves to become even deeper, just like new flowers sprout from the bud of a vine.
