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70 Chapter 4: Poetry
Shakespeare Sonnet Close Reading & Analysis Video Assignment
SONNET 29 PARAPHRASE IN YOUR
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, OWN WORDS
I 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 myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; Word Bank
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings Beweep: lament; to cry over
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Scope: outlook or view
Summary Figurative Language Devices
Tone & Mood Theme
Sonnet 29 shows the poet at his most insecure and
troubled. He feels unlucky, shamed, and fiercely
jealous of those around him.
FIGURE 4.2 To help students read and make sense of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, I provide this
graphic organizer. Sometimes I fill in some information to help students draw connections or
nudge them to notice something specific in the text.
Excerpted from Chapter 4, “Poetry: Traditional, Visual, Makerspace.”
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