that wraps around him as a Morning Glory vine might grow up around and encircle a tree or fence-post.She likens her foliage-thoughts to that vine wrapping "about a tree" and as it grows up the tree, it "put[s] out broad leaves." The leaves soon cover the tree until there is nothing visible except the vine.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 29
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This final command to carve the Cambronne quotation upon his stone leaves the reader again with the ambiguity for interpretation: does Keene want an obscenity carved upon his stone, or just a defiant, "never surrender"? Either way, he gets his point across--that he never surrendered his own sense of dignity to that of the town's corrupt leaders.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Masters' Kinsey Keene
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