Shakespeare's sonnet 29
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Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my boothless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring thisman’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I on thee – and then mystate,
Like to the lark at break of day arising,
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Century: XVII (17th) Shakespeare probably took to write all the sonnets a couple of years. They’re a total of154 poems that were first published in a 1609 collection entitled “Shake-Speares Sonnets”.
Theme: Love
Tone: Sadness
Setting: EnglandFigurative Language: In this poem Shakespeare make use of similes & personifications.
Own Words: In this poem we don’t clearly know to what type of love he isreferring to. This sonnet is addressed to another man expressing love for him, there are rumors that say this mean an homosexual love. The rumors might be rightbecause when he uses the words “look upon myself, and curse my fate” makes you think that maybe he’s regretting being a man, we’ll never know. But the poem isbasically about a man that is dissatisfied with the things he usually enjoyed because the “sweet love” of the person that he’s writing the poem to is no more.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my boothless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring thisman’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I on thee – and then mystate,
Like to the lark at break of day arising,
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Century: XVII (17th) Shakespeare probably took to write all the sonnets a couple of years. They’re a total of154 poems that were first published in a 1609 collection entitled “Shake-Speares Sonnets”.
Theme: Love
Tone: Sadness
Setting: EnglandFigurative Language: In this poem Shakespeare make use of similes & personifications.
Own Words: In this poem we don’t clearly know to what type of love he isreferring to. This sonnet is addressed to another man expressing love for him, there are rumors that say this mean an homosexual love. The rumors might be rightbecause when he uses the words “look upon myself, and curse my fate” makes you think that maybe he’s regretting being a man, we’ll never know. But the poem isbasically about a man that is dissatisfied with the things he usually enjoyed because the “sweet love” of the person that he’s writing the poem to is no more.
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