4.1.3

Key Quotes & Comparisons

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Key Quotations: Sonnet 29

Here's some key quotes to remember for you exam:

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'Twine and bud...'

  • 'My thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as wild vines, about a tree'.
    • Browning builds up an extended metaphor of her feelings being vines, whilst her lover is a steadfast tree.
    • Her thoughts are unconstrained and growing out of control, obscuring the reality of her lover.
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'My palm-tree...'

  • 'Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee'.
    • This quote indicates her changing mind in the second quatrain as she is beginning to realise that she should not place her thoughts of her lover over his physical presence
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"Renew thy presence...'

  • 'Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should'.
    • As our narrator reaches this state of breaking free from her thoughts, the language of the poem becomes excited.
    • Explosive verbs and imperatives, such as 'renew', exemplify the narrator’s reinvigorated desire for her lover.

Key Comparisons: Sonnet 29

Here are some suggestions for poems you could compare Sonnet 29 to. Remember, there are endless options!

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Letters from Yorkshire

  • You could compare depictions of love over distances and how the poets present these depictions.
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Singh Song!

  • You could compare the powerful and emotive metaphors for love or barriers to love and connection.

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1When We Two Parted - Lord Byron (1788-1824)

2Love’s Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley

3Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning (1812-1889)

4Sonnet 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

4.1Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ Analysis

5Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

6Letters from Yorkshire - Maura Dooley (Born 1957)

7The Farmer’s Bride - Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)

8Walking Away - Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)

9Eden Rock - Charles Causley (1917-2003)

10Follower - Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

11‘Mother, Any Distance’ - Simon Armitage (Born1963

12Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy (Born 1955)

13Winter Swans - Owen Sheers (Born 1974)

14Singh Song! - Daljit Nagra (Born 1966)

15Climbing My Grandfather - Andrew Waterhouse

16Grade 9 - Comparisons

16.1Grade 9 - Comparisons

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