Sonnet 29 "When in disgrace..."

Sonnet 29 can be best described as

• metaphorical fist being shaken at fate
• request for friendship or favor
• most unflattering portrait
• statement of how happy memories change despair to contentment

Sonnet 29 effectively uses or implies a number of contrasts, including all of the following except

• happiness and dicontent
• poverty and riches
• melancholy and great happiness
• spiritual love and earthly love

What is the significance of the image of the lark (lines 11-12) to the meaning of Sonnet 29?

• The lark symbolizes immortality.
• The lark represents the effect that remembering the friend as on the speaker's spirits.
• The lark is contrasted to the wealth derived from remembering the friend's "sweet love."
• The lark represents a state inferior to that of kings.

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("when in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")?

• Even when life is horrible, love can make it bearable.
• Love bears all things and endures all things.
• Sometimes when you love, you lose.
• Being envious of others' lives can lead you down the wrong path.

What is a volta?

• Four lines from a sonnet
• Emotional twist and final argument
• The tone of the poem
• The main message of the poem