Sonnet 29

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

• The speaker feels unlucky and are looked down upon by society

• The speaker is wealthy and admired by everyone

• The speaker is famous and celebrated

• The speaker is content with their situation

I all alone beweep my outcast state

• The speaker is surrounded by people and feel loved

• The speaker is grieving his/her isolation and feeling rejected

• The speaker is indifferent to his/her situation

• The speaker is content with being alone

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

• The speaker feels that their prayers go unanswered, and their suffering is in vain

• The speaker is at peace with their situation

• The speaker's prayers are heard by God, and they are hopeful

• The speaker is shouting their joys to the heavens

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope

• The speaker wants To be wealthier and have more friends

• The speaker wants To have more hope and optimism, like someone else

• The speaker wants To be more famous and powerful

• The speaker wants To have the freedom to live as they wish

With what I most enjoy contented least

• They feel satisfied with everything they have.

• They are most unhappy with the things they enjoy the most

• They have no desire for anything

• They want to enjoy more things in life.

Haply I think on thee, and then my state

• Their situation becomes even worse

• They begin to feel more hopeful and uplifted.

• They forget about their troubles and feel indifferent.

• They become angry and resentful.

Which of the following lines is an example of the turn in Sonnet 29?

• “I all alone beweep my outcast state,”

• “Haply I think on thee, and then my state,”

• “Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,”

• “Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,”

Read the pairs of lines from Shakespearean sonnets below. Which is the couplet?

• “For thy sweet love remembered brings

  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” (S. 29, lines 13 & 14)

• “In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire

  That on the ashes of his youth doth lie.” (S. 73, lines 9 & 10)

• “I grant I never saw a goddess go,

  My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground.” (S. 130, lines 11 & 12)

• “Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark

  . . .

  It is the star to every wandering bark” (S. 116, lines 5 & 7)

When the poem begins, the speaker

• is deaf

• almost despises himself

• desires to be an artist

• wishes everyone were like himself

A sonnet is—

• a drama consisting of five acts

• a fourteen-verse lyric poem

• a song with a repeated verse

• a speech given by a character to open a play