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Wishing….we in hope– the poet, in a despondent mood, feels envious of those who are inspired and activated with the flame of hope. One more rich in hope – a person who possesses high hopes. Lines 5-8: Wishing me-the poet wishes for himself. The quatrain brings out the poet’s sense of utter despondency and gloom. Curse my fate– he curses his unfortunate lot. Of course, the poet finds nothing but distress to think of his state. Bootless cries – the poet’s complaints are all unavailing, Look upon myself– the poet muses upon his state. Bootless – fruitless, unavailing, profitless, ineffective. Deaf heaven – heaven is deaf, because his prayers and lamentations have all been ignored. It implies the poet’s condition in disgrace and misery. The word “state’ has specific significance here. Outcast state – in a lonely state, ignored and despised by all. That attack upset Shakespeare much and led him to resentment.Īll alone the poet emphasizes his lonely state. In the year 1992, there came in addition to the disgrace of fortune, the disgrace in ‘men’s eyes which was caused by Robert Greene’s death bed attack on him in print. With the closure of the theatres, it was very difficult for the poet to our even his hare livelihood. Those years were for Shakespeare a period of extreme hardship and utter discouragement.
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Shakespeare gives out here much of his own slate during the years 15. When in… Men’s eyes – the poet speaks of his own state of misfortune and humiliation Disgraced with fortune – disgraced by the lack of fortune, not favored by fortune. When in….eyes– when the poet is subjected to misfortune and severe humiliation. In disgrace in a state of humiliation and shame. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 Line by Line Paraphrase The poet attains such a state of mental affluence that he refuses to exchange his position even with any royal state. This elevates his spirit and fills his mind with spontaneous delight. Yet, in such a state of despair and distress, the poet feels enlivened by remembering his friend’s sweet love. The effect of remembrance of the friend’s sweet love: In fact, he is thoroughly discontented with what he has. He wishes to be animated with their hope and enriched with their good features, friends, skill and opportunity. The poet feels envious and desirous of all that others have but he has not. The poet’s yearning for possessing what he lacks: His complaints to Heaven seem all ineffective. He finds himself wretched, alone deprived of fortune and despised by worldly opinions. The poet is haunted with a sad sense of frustration and humiliation. Love brings to him consolation amid his mental anguish and dejection.Īs the poet’s consolation, sums up his sad lamentation for his wretched and unfortunate state of life, the title Consolation appears quite appropriate. His thought of his friend’s sweet love revives his spirit and restores his mind to tranquility. His grief-stricken and restive mind is brought to harmony by remembered love. The third quatrain and the concluding couplet (the sestet) indicate a change in the poet’s mood. This is, however, followed by the poet’s sense of consolation. This sense of gloom is deep and casts the poet’s mind with despise for himself. He feels disgraced, ‘between his outcast state’, curses his ‘fate’ and wishes to have what different people possess and enjoy hope, health, friendship, fortune, efficiency and opportunity.
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An utter sense of frustration possesses his mind and leads him to hour jealousy and envy for what he has not. The first two quatrains trace the poet’s disconsolate mood. 29) ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes has a subsidiary title, ‘A Consolation’. In fact, inspirited with the warmth of love, the poet’s mind transcends all earthly manners and material desires and achieves a perfect state of happiness and contentment. In this mood of dejection, a timely remembrance of his friend’s sweet love enriches and inspires his mind to such an extent that he refuses to have any change in his state. In such moments of his life, a mood of depression captures his mind and bunts him with the sad sense of his own failure to possess what others have, such as hope, good appearance, friends, skill and opportunity. The poet finds himself disgraced and humiliated by his own misfortune and worldly opinions. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, beloved by many, were published first in 1609, although the First Folio edition of his plays did not come out until seven years after his death in 1623.The theme of the sonnet presents explicitly the poet’s feeling of the worldly failure and the consolation brought by the thought of the sweet love of his friend. Amanda Muggleton, Shento Gregorio and Owen O’Neil performing Works from Shakespeare and Elizabethan Songs at a Twelfth Night Supper raising funds for the completion of St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane on 30th October, 2003