Set 4 Flashcards
Sonnet 29 - ‘I think of thee’ poet
Elizabeth browning
Sonnet 29 context
Browning had ill health her whole life
Written to Robert Browning (never intended to be published but he insisted)
Elizabeth’s father disapproved of relationship
(She got disinherited)
Sonnet 29 vines
“As wild vines”
Sonnet 29 tree
“As a strong tree should”
Sonnet 29 trunk
“Set thy trunk all bare”
Sonnet 29 shadow
“Breathe within thy shadow”
Sonnet 29 think
“I do not think of thee”
Love’s philosophy poet
Percy Byschee Shelley
Love’s philosophy context
Published pamphlet on atheism in 1811
Married Mary Walstonecraft and ran away from pregnant first wife
Suggests it is Gods law for man and woman to be together
Loves philosophy water
“The fountains with the river and the river with the ocean”
Loves philosophy winds
“Winds of heaven mix forever”
Loves philosophy sunlight
“Sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea”
Love’s philosophy kiss
“What are all these kissings worth if thou kiss me not?”
