The last two lines sum up the speaker’s point. Who do the pronouns thee (line 10) and thy (line 13) refer to? Who is the speaker’s audience?Ĥ. What causes this change, and how does it affect the speaker’s tone? Discuss the figurative language he uses in describing his new state.ģ. In the next section of the poem (lines 9-12), the speaker’s mental state changes.
What does it mean to “trouble heaven with cries” (line 3), and in what way is heaven “deaf”? As in the sonnet (Sonnet 29) the despondent state of the poet’s mind in magically relieved by the very thought of his friend.What does it mean to be “in disgrace with fortune” and “in disgrace with men’s eyes” (line 1)? Why does he “beweep outcast state” (line 2) and “curse fate” (line 4)?.What can we tell about the speaker in this sonnet? What is he saying about himself and his own mental state in the first eight lines? Specifically, consider the following details:
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