Sonnet 29 - 'I think of thee!'

Question 1

Author:

Answer 1

Browning (she)

Question 3

‘My thoughts do twine and bud’, ‘wild vines’

• NATURE
• LONGING

Answer 3

Her thoughts are like a budding plant that wraps itself round a tree - perhaps highlights how she felt reliant on him (symbiotic)
Moreover, this plant is ‘as wild vines’, suggesting uncontrollable thoughts - vines also parasitic.
Alternatively, vine = her and tree = him - she’s dominant or worried she’s issue in relationship.
Underlying threat - ‘hides of the wood’ of tree: suffocation or protection?
‘Bud’ - birth, new life, growth, changes, uncertainty

Question 4

‘My palm-tree’

- NATURE

Answer 4

Symbol of faith and belief - represents her dedication to and faith in her husband.
Possessive connotations.
In addition, it may be representative of her love that is growing in a life that had been devoid of love previously, a desert, in which palm-trees are the only one that grow (or she’s isolating him, she’s poisonous/manipulative).

Question 5

‘I do not think of thee - I am too near thee’

- FULFILMENT

Answer 5

Now his physical presence overwhelms her thoughts entirely.

Question 6

Compare with:

Answer 6

Singh Song / Climbing My Grandfather - relationships presented as fulfilling
Letters From Yorkshire / Winter Swans - natural imagery used to show distance in relationship