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Sonnet 29

by William Shakespeare · 1609 · 1 dakikalık okuma · 14 satır

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Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare is a poem about how remembering someone’s love changes a speaker’s sense of his own worth. At first, he feels rejected by fortune and other people, weeps alone, and sends useless cries toward a heaven that seems unable to hear. He envies other people’s hope, looks, friends, talents, and opportunities, finding little comfort even in what he usually enjoys. The poem turns when he happens to think of the person he addresses. His spirits rise like a lark lifting from gloomy earth at dawn and singing near heaven. By the final lines, remembered love feels like such great wealth that he would not exchange his condition for a king’s.

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyesI all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Satır satır anlamı

1 ile 4 arasındaki satırlar: The speaker feels unlucky and judged by others. Alone, he mourns his exclusion and curses his situation. His cries reach toward a heaven described as deaf, suggesting that he receives no answer or comfort. These lines establish a painful gap between his need for help and the silence around him.

5 ile 8 arasındaki satırlar: His unhappiness becomes a series of comparisons. He wants another person’s hope, someone else’s appearance or friends, and still others’ abilities or range of opportunity. Repeated wishes make his dissatisfaction seem restless and scattered. Even the things he normally enjoys no longer satisfy him.

9 ile 12 arasındaki satırlar: Just as his thoughts bring him close to self-hatred, he happens to remember the person he addresses. That thought changes his emotional condition. The comparison to a lark rising at dawn turns the poem upward: gloomy earth gives way to song near heaven, replacing the earlier image of unanswered cries.

13 ile 14 arasındaki satırlar: The closing lines explain the change: remembering the person’s love gives the speaker a sense of wealth. This richness is not money or rank but a feeling strong enough to outweigh both. Someone who envied others now rejects even the possibility of exchanging his situation with kings.

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Üzerine düşünülecek üç soru

  1. How does the image of heaven change between the speaker’s opening cries and the lark’s song?
  2. What do the speaker’s wishes reveal about how he measures himself against other people?
  3. How does the final comparison with kings change the meaning of wealth in the poem?

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