英国文学Sonnet 29赏析

Sonnet 29

When,in disgrace with fortune and man's eyes

I all alone beweep my outcast state

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

And look upon my self and curse my fate

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope

Featured 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 thought 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

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings

This is one of shakespeare's more ambiguous sonnets :one does not know who the speaker is referring to or if the word "love"in this sonnet refers to a romantic love or a platonic love.

The whole poem expresses the changes of the author's inner feelings,which are from disappoint to hopeful,from negative to positive ,from desperate to attectionate ,from self-abased to confident. discloses the desire of appetite ,lust and power and proposes that appetite is the basic desire ,lust has its own duality ,the desire for power is a danger and finally the paper gives a way to deal with the desires.

It is a poem which helps us sense the greatness of love,which is the center of his life,the sunshine on a cloudy day.

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