*How doe the speaker use nature to present symbols in “Porphyria’s Lover” and “I think of Thee”?
In both poems the speaker use personification mentioning trees, in the poem “think of Thee” the speaker use vines saying there are wild and messy to show how much she loves that person that when she thinks about him it stops her focusing and that her thoughts are wild and growing every time she thinks about her lover and also she is wants to express her sexual attraction to him “About thee, as wild vines, about a tree” while in PL the speaker present nature in the opening if the poem
September 13, 2016 at 11:57 am
Jorge,
This is a fine starting point BUT you must begin to explore why the adjectives/verbs used in the personification help to build our interpretation.
Why are the vines – wild instead of trimmed? how is the wind described in Porphyria? How do each of these aspects affect how we feel about the speaker? Why?
September 13, 2016 at 2:25 pm
I can see you have tried to develop this, have a look at our classwork notes here and finish
http://10north.teacher.edutronic.net/2016/09/07/sonnet-29-i-think-of-thee/