sonnet 29

• quote 1 :

  ' my thoughts do twine and bud'
• quote 2 :

  ' i will not have my thoughts instead of thee'
• quote 3:

  ' i do not think of thee - i am too near thee'
• 'my thoughts do twine and bud':

  • bud- to flower, growing
  • parasitic?, RB and her were not allowed to be together, without him she would die
• 'i will not have my thoughts instead of thee'

  • i will - declarative, stubborn
  • she will not settle
• 'i do not think of thee- i am too near thee'

  • i do not think of thee- circular narrative- reversal
  • thee- repetition, desperation or obsession
  • she wont have to think of him as they will be together
• structure :

  • uses the sonnet form
  • does not conform the the rhyme of a petrachen sonnet - refusing to conform by rules
• context :

  • married robert brown and was more succesfull than him
  • had a very controlling father
  • her language is explicitly sexual and would be frowned upon by victorian society
• petrachen sonnets :

  • used by E.B.B
  • sonnet 29 is one of 44 sonnets she wrote to RB
  • a 14 line poem written using iambic pentametre wich mimics the heart