This is reinforced by that unique metaphor “bootless cries”, which compares his pleas to a barefooted individual who is going nowhere. Personifying “heaven” as “deaf” is also a very effective way to show that no one is listening and his prayers will remain unanswered. He appeals for divine intervention to help him escape the “disgrace”, but there is bitterness in the word “trouble” because it suggests his “bootless cries” are an agitation and unworthy of a response from “heaven”. The straightforward references to “fortune” and “fate” suggest the “disgrace” was beyond his control and he feels like a victim of circumstance. When he considers his loss of reputation in “men’s eyes” because of vicious “fortune”, he wants to “curse” his “fate”. The speaker in “Sonnet 29” has suffered some sort of “disgrace”. Life can be incredibly cruel and most people have experienced some awful rejection, humiliation or hurt that made us feel isolated and completely worthless. That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (Like to the lark at break of day arising)įrom sullen earth sings hymns at heaven’s gate įor thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,įeatured like him, like him with friends possessed,ĭesiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,Īnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
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