Sonnet 29 I Think of Thee - LitP2, L&RPA

Question 1

Quotes

Answer 1

• wild vines, about a tree
• straggling green which hides the wood
• my thoughts do twine and bud

Question 2

Form and Structure
what poetic structure ?

Answer 2

Petrarchan sonnet
14 line love poem

Question 3

Form and Structure
language about what?

Answer 3

• nature “wild vines”
  shows how her love is constantly growing and she wants to be a part of him
• excited and subtly sexual language
  plosive sounds and dynamic verbs

Question 4

Themes

Answer 4

• longing
• intensity
  forceful language
• celebration

Question 5

Poems with similar emotion

Answer 5

Porphyria’s Lover one narrative voice, caught up in their thoughts.

Question 6

Poet Name + About Who

Answer 6

Elizabeth Browning probably about Robert Browning

Question 7

Context

Answer 7

written in 1846
hid it in an anthology called sonnets from the Portuguese
women werent allowed to be open about sexual desire