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L. You A. Williams

Overall theme Alienation and Loneliness

Sonnet 29

Sonnet 29 shows the poet at his most insecure and troubled state. He feels unlucky, shamed, and fiercely jealous of those around him.

Sonnet 29 by Williams Shakespeare begins with the speaker describing moments of great sadness "outcast state" "I am alone beweep my outcast state" he expresses his seclusion from society, his feelings of aloneness which is a result of his shortcomings in his financials goals. Unfavorable standing in society or a lack of financial success in the playwriting field. "And trouble deaf heavens with my bootless cries" He feels that his prayers are not being heard and listened to. "Wishing me like to one more rich in hope," He continues to wish that he was more gifted in life. He is envious of what others have achieved and he seeks a more attractive self, more friends and greater artistic skills. Then there is a a change in mood in the Sonnet. It becomes more "up beat". This is caused by him remembering a love he once felt for someone. He compares it to "the lark at break of day arising" as well as " hymns at heaven's gate” The thought of this love enough to lift him from his depression and value his position in life more than a kings.