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Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare1564-1616
Sonnet 29
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
What Is The Poet Saying?
• First Two Quatrains– Function as self-reflection– “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s
eyesI all alone beweep my
outcast state”(1-2)
• Considers himself to be isolated– Bad luck– Lonely
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
What Is The Poet Saying?
• “And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries” (3)
– “bootless cries”• Futile prayers
– “deaf Heaven”• Heaven does not hear or respond to his
prayers
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
What Is The Poet Saying?
• “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 this man’s art and that man’s scope”
(4-7)
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
What Is The Poet Saying?
• Curses his bad luck (that he is who he is)
• Wishes to be someone else– “with friends possessed”
• demonstrates the poet’s loneliness• demonstrates the poet’s desire for
companionship
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
What Is The Poet Saying?
• “With what I most enjoy contented least—“ (8)
– What he most enjoys is most absent in his life
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Third Quatrain
• Volta• Change in perspective
– “Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at Heaven’s gate.”
(9-12)
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Third Quatrain
• As the poet begins to hate himself, he thinks about his friend
• His mood and perspective immediately changes
– Imagery• Lark• Daybreak• Hymns• Heaven’s gate
– All positive, uplifting images
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Couplet
• “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That
then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
(13-14)– Once he thinks of his friend, he considers
himself to be extremely wealthy• In fact, once he begins to think of his
friend, he would not trade places with a king
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Shakespearean Sonnet
– Rhyme Scheme
• abab cdcd efef gg
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Shakespearean Sonnet
• Meter
˘ ΄ ˘ ΄ ˘ ΄ ˘ ΄ ˘ ΄• When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
• Iambic Pentameter
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Imagery – First two quatrains
• Negative imagery– Centers around loneliness
– Third quatrain• Positive imagery
– Lark – Singing– Hymns – Heaven
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Simile – “Wishing me like to one more rich in hope”
(5)• Comparing himself to someone with better
fortune
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Alliteration
– “Yet in these thoughts…” (9)
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Poetic Devices
• Tone
– First two quatrains
• Loneliness
– Third quatrain
• Happiness