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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 29 ‘I think of thee!: themes

Where each theme appears across the book: start (left) to end (right).

Love and longing1

The speaker’s love generates an intense desire for the beloved, whose absence fills her mind with proliferating thoughts. Yet imagining him cannot satisfy her longing for his actual presence.

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