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        <title><![CDATA[In this sonnet, the speaker envies a lot of things.
He envies people who...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this sonnet, the speaker envies a lot of things.
He envies people who are more hopeful than he is.
He envies someone who is, presumably, better looking than him.
He envies people who are surrounded by friends.
He envies one man's skills
He envies another man's freedom
But overall, really, what he envies is not such a big deal in this poem.  What's really important is that when he thinks about his love, all of his envies and all of his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:14:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Love]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Love]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:07:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the long introductory clause, what does the speaker say he envies?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the long introductory clause, what does the speaker say he envies?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:05:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The images brought out in lines 9-12 are the critical points in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The images brought out in lines 9-12 are the critical points in the sonnet as it changes the focus of the sonnet.  The first portion of the sonnet focuses on a great deal of challenge and misfortune.  Yet, through the invocation of the love subject of the speaker, we begin to see how the power and redemptive spirit of love can be transformative.  The simile which helps to evoke this would be the use of the bird.  When Shakespeare describes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:49:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What similie does the speaker use in lines 11-12 to describe his new...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/what-similie-does-speaker-use-lines-11-12-describe-105053</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What similie does the speaker use in lines 11-12 to describe his new state of mind? Does this simile strike you as a good description of joy?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:17:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the poet is despondent through the first two...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/sescribe-poet-smood-begining-sonnet-29-shakespeare-96007</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the poet is despondent through the first two quatrains (groups of 4 lines).  Whether he is now "in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" is not clear; the poet may simply be reflecting upon this condition.  At any rate, he sets up the condition as one which causes him a feeling of alienation and despair.  In this state, the poet declares that he is envious of the prosperity and companionship and talents of others...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:51:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the point at which the poet changes mood in Shakespeare's...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/sescribe-poet-smood-begining-sonnet-29-shakespeare-96007</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Describe the point at which the poet changes mood in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:14:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I won't write your essay for you, but I will help you with some ideas. ...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/write-an-essay-that-compares-contrasts-sonnet-29-88629</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I won't write your essay for you, but I will help you with some ideas.  You should begin by noting what elements of these two poems are similar and how they are different.  Let's start with the differences.  One is a sonnet and one is not, so there is a definite format issue.  Both speakers are male, and both have a love for which they would do anything.  However, in "Valediction", the speaker is telling his love not to mourn the fact...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:34:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Write an essay that Compares and Contrasts "Sonnet 29" and "Valediction...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/write-an-essay-that-compares-contrasts-sonnet-29-88629</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Write an essay that Compares and Contrasts "Sonnet 29" and "Valediction Forbidding Mourning".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:10:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You said you know the rhyme scheme  of 14 lines (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/need-help-need-write-my-own-sonnet-now-rhyming-88075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[You said you know the rhyme scheme  of 14 lines (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) and it's in iambic pentameter (ta DA ta DA ta DA ta DA ta DA).
You will have three stanzas of four lines, followed by a concluding couplet. The final couplet should be some big statement, perhaps about a future relationship or a certain final feeling. The three stanzas could be focused on what specifically about him made your heart stop, what characteristics about him...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:31:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I need help.  I need to write my own sonnet.  I know the rhyming...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/need-help-need-write-my-own-sonnet-now-rhyming-88075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I need help.  I need to write my own sonnet.  I know the rhyming couplet, but I really don't know how to write a sonnet.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:42:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The solution to the problem of a difficult situation spelled out in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The solution to the problem of a difficult situation spelled out in Sonnet 29 and the envy this brings on of those with better situations is not to wallow in it and feel sorry for oneself. Shakespeare finds relief and satisfaction in the love of God that he remembers and feels. God is the Friend the poet addresses. This love stimulates a man to be true to himself and to embrace Godly moral standards. The moral of the sonnet is that this...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:08:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It isn't a single thing, it is many things. Consider these lines:And...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It isn't a single thing, it is many things. Consider these lines:And look upon myself and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;He wishes to be better looking (&quot;featured like him&quot;), that he had more friends, that he had another's skill or intelligence. In short, he envies anything...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:40:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the speaker envy in &quot;Sonnet 29&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/need-help-with-sonnet-29-52905</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the speaker envy in &quot;Sonnet 29&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:17:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are several ways to define the moral of this poem. One might be-be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are several ways to define the moral of this poem. One might be-be grateful for what you have and quit wishing for more. The speaker appears to be unsatisfied with what he is given. He wants a host of things he does not have, but envies in others-a wealth of friends, money, or admiration.The speaker finds relief from his state of hopelessness by discovering that his worship of his beloved is his source of happiness. The speaker had spent...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:32:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the moral in Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare? ]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/what-moral-sonnet-29-by-william-shakespeare-18653</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the moral in Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:56:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An author is never the “speaker” of his poem but rather constructs a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/shakespeare-speaker-this-poem-what-details-12991</link>
        <description><![CDATA[An author is never the “speaker” of his poem but rather constructs a voice, a persona, which acts as the speaker.  It is similar to an actor playing a part:  the person who is the actor and the character he portrays are not the same.  There are many figures of speech in the poem, both metaphors and similes. These include “deaf heaven” and “bootless cries.”  The former personifies heaven, suggesting that no one hears what the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:22:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Shakespeare the speaker of this poem? What details of language and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Shakespeare the speaker of this poem? What details of language and action carry symbolism? Does the poem exhibit a pattern of allegorical details?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:23:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[All of Shakespeare's sonnets were published in 1609, and  they were...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/sonnet-29/q-and-a/what-were-literary-characteristics-time-period-11407</link>
        <description><![CDATA[All of Shakespeare's sonnets were published in 1609, and  they were probably circulated in manuscript form since about 1598.  The composition of sonnet cycles--and Sonnet 29 is part of Shakespeare's sonnet cycle--was in vogue at the time, an imitation of Petrarch's famous cycles to Laura. Many English poets at this time were writing sonnets.  Shakespeare developed a form slightly different from that of Petrarch, and this came to be known...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:58:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What were the literary characteristics of the time period of this sonnet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What were the literary characteristics of the time period of this sonnet and does this sonnet fit in with the literary style of that time?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:19:33 PST</pubDate>
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