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Sonnet 29
Personification: Giving objects human qualities or emotions. "trouble deaf heaven"-- Shakespeare describes heaven as being "deaf" which normally would describe a person incapable of hearing....
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Sonnet 29
You could say that the speaker's mood changes twice. In the early portion of the poem, the speaker spirals into a low and dark mood. In the early lines, he becomes depressed due to failure and...
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Sonnet 29
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 involves a sharp change in tone that separates lines 1-8 from lines 9-14. In the first 8 lines of the poem, the narrator expresses a bitter, depressed tone. He is...
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Sonnet 29
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 has as its meaning the fact that the love of another can make all the difference to a person. This fact is summed in the heroic couplet at the sonnet's end: For thy sweet...
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Sonnet 29
“Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare is one of the 129 poems written for a mystery man. In the thirteenth line of the poem, the poet describes the subject of the poem as “they sweet love remembered.”...
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Sonnet 29
The structure of Sonnet 29 is very interesting. The first eight lines are a relative when-clause indicating the time of the occurrence detailed (or occurrences, depending on how you look at the...
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Sonnet 29
In Sonnet 29, the speaker spends the first eight lines lamenting his "outcast state." He feels that other men have more skill ("art"), more friends, or more reason (hope) to feel good about...
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Sonnet 29
While it is possible that Shakespeare wrote more sonnets that were lost to history, we have the text of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare. Greg
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Sonnet 29 is all about love's power to bring optimism and hope to one who feels lonely and depressed. The first two lines of the sonnet perfectly capture his feelings: "When in disgrace with...
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Sonnet 29 opens in a negative, almost petulant mood, as the speaker "[beweeps]" his "outcast state" (2), and envies other men ("one more rich in hope" [5]). Then, at line 9, the speaker's mood and...
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Sonnet 29
The speaker in this sonnet is in a low state of mind to begin with. His attitude to life is to "beweep" whatever has led to his "disgrace" in the eyes of both fortune and other people; he is...
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Sonnet 29
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...
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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...
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The only example of poetic license in Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 would seem to be contained in the beautiful metaphor: ...and then my state,Like to the Lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth,...
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The speaker is discussing all of the bad things that have happened to him in his life, and how thinking about his love makes him feel like life is not so bad. Some of the specific things he...
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Sonnet 29
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29" is about the despair the speaker feels when he has faced some disgrace of fortune--perhaps he can't pay a bill or a play was badly acted or poorly received--and as a...
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Sonnet 29
The turning point in Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 comes at the ninth line, which reads: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, The preceding eight lines of the sonnet describe the poet's...
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Sonnet 29
The first use of the word "state" occurs in the second line of the sonnet, as the speaker bemoans his "outcast state." In this instance, the word "state" is synonymous with "condition" or...
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Sonnet 29
To me, the turn of this sonnet begins at the line that starts "Yet in these thoughts..." By saying "yet," the speaker is clearly saying that what came before is going to be different from what...
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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...
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Sonnet 29
The speaker is distressed about his fate, but when he thinks of his love, his condition improves. The condition improving is then compared in a simile: his mood improves and gets better "Like to...
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Sonnet 29
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes… One of Shakespeare’s often quoted lines from “Sonnet 29” was dedicated along with many other sonnets to a young man that is greatly loved. Not much is...
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Sonnet 29
Sonnets break into sections, and the turning point in this sonnet is the line 10: “Haply I think on thee, and then my state…” After speaking of his moments of despair, envy, and depression in the...
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What brings the speaker out of his mood of dejection and despair is remembering the person to whom this famous sonnet is addressed. Because the speaker knows himself to be loved by this person, it...
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Sonnet 29
This is a poem about love and about how the speaker feels when he thinks about his love. In the first nine lines, the poet talks about things that make him feel bad. He says that he feels bad when...
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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...
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Despite being only mentioned once in the entire poem, the lark is by far the poem's most potent and vivid image. The lark is presented to readers in a simile in line eleven. Haply I think on thee,...
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Sonnet 29
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...
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Sonnet 29
In "Singh Song," a poem by Daljit Nagra, the speaker uses dialect to describe his relationship with his wife and how it relates to his job in a store that he owns and manages. He describes going...
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Sonnet 29
The themes of alienation, failure, self-doubt, self-loathing, envy at the success of others, hopelessness, and desperate loneliness are carried through the first eight lines of the poem. Then a...
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From Shakespeare's point of view according to Sonnet 29, the significance of love is that it can bring wealth and songs and hope. The quatrain bemoans the times when fate leads to loss of wealth...
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Sonnet 29, "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" by William Shakespeare, is narrated in the first person singular and thus describes the experience of a single person, not of people in...
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Sonnet 29
Personification is used to describe heaven as deaf to the speaker's futile cries: And trouble deaf heaven (line 3) In line 12 personification is also used when earth is described as "sullen." A...
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Sonnet 29
One of the most popular kinds of sonnets is the Shakespearean (Elizabethan or English) poetic form—not invented by the Bard, but popularized by him. It is similar to other sonnets (e.g., the...
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The simple remembrance of his beloved, whomever that may be, changes his state of mind. The speaker is in a profound state of self-loathing. He complains of his own status, ability, situation in...
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You do understand hyperbole to be great exaggeration I assume. That is what we need to find, instances where a person argues something that really seems to be not true, or at least beyond the scope...
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Sonnet 29
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, "When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes", is written in the first person. The narrator initially describes himself as somewhat of an outsider, for who things are not...
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Sonnet 29
When Shakespeare's sad and woeful narrator, after recounting all his sorrows, thinks of his beloved, his mood changes to happiness. He likens this change of mood (this "state") to the beautiful...
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Sonnet 29
These two sonnets are two of handful of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets. Both sonnets have a negative and bitter tone to them and suggest that the speaker is unhappy with some aspect of his...
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In short, the thoughts of the speaker's beloved lift him out of his despondency. For most of the poem, the speaker's feeling pretty sorry for himself. Everything seems to be going wrong in his...
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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...
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Sonnet 29
The audience in this sonnet is the speaker's lover, though the thoughts are penned in solitude rather than spoken to the lovers' face. It is not until line 10 that we see redemption for the...
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Sonnet 29
For evidence of dejection in the poem, look no further than the first four lines: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with...
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This is largely a matter of speculation, but one could say that "Sonnet 29," with its tone of hurt and self-pity, is a response by Shakespeare to attacks on his professional reputation as an actor...
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Sonnet 29
The poem "Marrysong" by Dennis Scott, and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, have few similarities and many differences. In "Marrysong," we learn of a man and the woman that he loves. In Sonnet 29, the...
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Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare wrote over 154 sonnets. Sonnets 1-129 were dedicated to a young man that Shakespeare loved and admired. Sonnet 29 falls into this category. The poem is written in the English...
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The simple answer is that we are never told and so we don't know. Many critics have tried to view this sonnet as an example of Shakespeare's life intruding into his poetry, suggesting that the...
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Sonnet 29
Any two sonnets? How fun! Well, I'm going to focus my answer on the idea of love persisting "despite time's ravages." Two of the best sonnets ever written on this topic are Shakespeare's Sonnet...
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Sonnet 29
In terms of structure and style, both Shakespearean (English) sonnets are arranged thusly: four divisions: three quatrains (each with a rhyme-scheme of its own) and a rhymed couplet at the end that...
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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...
