This quote represents personalization because the sky cannot be deaf. The theme of this sonnet makes it clear that love is the only true and important wealth for a human being. The speaker envies other people’s possessions, but then he/she thinks about their relationship and feels fulfilled.
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Lines 10-12: Here the speaker uses a simile in which he compares his once depressed mood to a “lark” rising from the “grumpy earth” and singing “hymns” at the Gate of Heaven sings.
Use of metaphor
The whole poem is an extended metaphor based on natural imagery. The vine is used to represent the speaker’s thoughts and the tree on which the vine grows represents the speaker’s lover.
Unlike some of Shakespeare’s other love poems, which deal with physical beauty and erotic desire, “Sonnet 29” is about the power of love to positively influence one’s mind, like the poem argues that love offers compensation for the hurts and setbacks one suffers in life.
Personification: Personification is attributing human characteristics to non-human or inanimate objects. For example: “Of the sulky earth sing hymns at the gates of heaven.” Here Shakespeare has personified the earth as if it were a man who can sing.
The lark is a bird associated with morning and dawn. Shakespeare likens his song to “Hymns at Heaven’s Gate”. In other words, the speaker of the poem feels a holy joy filling his heart, reminding him of the lovely song of the lark when he is reminded of those he loves. That I then scorn changing my state with kings.
Pictures. The author uses this pictorial representation of a songbird at heaven’s gate and a depressing earth as symbolism. The soaring and singing lark represents the speaker’s soaring happiness and love of the speaker. The grumpy earth represents the narrator’s state of solitude.
Literary devices are specific techniques that allow an author to convey a deeper meaning that goes beyond what is written on the page. Literary devices work in tandem with plot and characters to enhance a story and provoke thought about life, society and what it means to be human.
“I Think of Thee” is an Italian sonnet. This means that it has 14 lines consisting of an octave (an 8-line stanza) and a sextet (a 6-line stanza). The octave here can be further divided into two quatrains (each with an ABBA rhyme scheme) and the sextet into two tercets (with the rhyme scheme CBC BCB).
Sonnet 29 of Shakespeare contrasts two moods: rejected and depressed with loving and hopeful.
Elements: poetry. As with narrative, poetry has “elements” that we can focus on to enrich our understanding of a particular poem or group of poems. These elements may include voice, diction, images, idioms, symbolism and allegory, syntax, sound, rhythm and meter, and structure.
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