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We're talking love triangles, torrid affairs, friendship drama, betrayal, jealousy, professional rivalry, and so on.Д«ut don't go thinking you haveВ to read them all in order. GradeSaver, 19 October 2005 Web.If you read all 154 of Will Shakespeare's Sonnets in chronological order from start to finish, the sequence unfolds like one big juicy story (okay, soap opera). 'ShakespeareвЂ™s Sonnets Sonnet 29 - вЂњWhen in disgrace with fortune and menвЂ™s eyesвЂќ Summary and Analysis'.

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Next Section Sonnet 33 - 'Full many a glorious morning have I seen' Summary and Analysis Previous Section Sonnet 28 - 'How can I then return in happy plight,' Summary and Analysis Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Blake Jason Boulerice. But it also refers to a nation, or a kingdom. Here, 'state' is a pun: it carries the meaning of emotional well-being, as it did earlier in the poem, and suggests that the love of the fair lord makes the speaker so happy that all the wealth of a king would not be better. The final couplet of Sonnet 29 declares that this joyfulness brought about by a thought of the fair lord is enough to convince the speaker that he is better off than royalty.

As the lark 'sings hymns at heaven's gate,' so the poet's soul is invigorated with the thought of the fair lord, and seems to sing to the sky with rejuvenated hope. The fact that the lark rises from the 'sullen earth' at 'break of day' implies that the day is much happier than the night day break is compared to the dawning of a thought of the beloved. The simile of a lark is developed in lines 10-12, when the speaker describes the effect that a thought of his love has on his 'state,' or emotional well-being. In line 7, he envies the artistic talent of one man, and the opportunities afforded someone else. He wishes to be like 'one more rich in hope,' perhaps meaning hopeful or literally wealthy 'featured like him,' refers to someone who is handsome, with beautiful features and another is 'with friends possessed,' or popular, unlike the poet (as has been established in the first two lines). The speaker finds himself envying what others have, and in lines 5-9 he sees almost everyone as having something he lacks.

The idea of cursing one's fate also hearkens to Job, who cursed himself after falling out of God's favor. The poet finds himself in the same situation: Heaven personified is God, and in this case he is 'deaf,' making the poet's cries 'bootless,' or useless. Lines 3-4 make allusion to Job of the Old Testament in the Bible, who was cast out onto a dung heap and called to a God who didn't listen. This could be real or imagined, but it is enforced in line 2, when he bemoans his 'outcast state.' Here, 'state' refers to a state of being, and in this case, he is cast out from society. He also feels in disgrace with 'men's eyes,' implying that the general public looks on him unfavorably. The emotional state of the speaker in Sonnet 29 is one of depression: in the first line, he assumes himself to be 'in disgrace with fortune,' meaning he has been having bad luck. 'For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings.'Д«ecause thinking of your love makes me feel so rich that I wouldn't switch places with kings. Like a lark that sings at dawn, my situation seems to brighten and become hopeful 'Like to the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate ' 'Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising, / Haply I think on thee, and then my state,'Д®ven though I am hating myself, I happen to think of you, and then, Wanting one person's talent, and another's opportunity, and things that usually make me happy only making me more upset 'Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, / With what I most enjoy contented least ' Wishing I were more like someone with more hope in his life, or someone very handsome, or popular, 'Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, / Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,' 'And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, / And look upon myself, and curse my fate,'ДЄnd pray, though it seems like no one hears my prayers, and feel sorry for myself, When I'm having bad luck and am looked down upon by other people, I cry alone in self-pity, 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state,'

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