Summary of sonnet 29 by william shakesspeare
Answers
SONNET 29
"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state,"
When I'm having bad luck and am looked down upon by other people, I cry alone in self-pity,
"And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, / And look upon myself, and curse my fate,"
And pray, though it seems like no one hears my prayers, and feel sorry for myself,
"Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, / Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,"
Wishing I were more like someone with more hope in his life, or someone very handsome, or popular,
"Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, / With what I most enjoy contented least;"
Wanting one person's talent, and another's opportunity, and things that usually make me happy only making me more upset;
"Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising, / Haply I think on thee, and then my state,"
Even though I am hating myself, I happen to think of you, and then,
"Like to the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;"
Like a lark that sings at dawn, my situation seems to brighten and become hopeful;
"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings."
Because thinking of your love makes me feel so rich that I wouldn't switch places with kings.