Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 126: Critique
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Shakespeare's sonnets, as poems, have been obscured by the enormous amount
of speculation, much of it unjustified, that has grown up around the problems
presented by the dedication. The following sonnet is commonly grouped with 125
others that are believed to have been written to a much admired y ....
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.... stupid, thus the elaboration. In the first
line the poet speaks of himself as being out of luck, and/or money and not well
received by his fellow man. He has taken to crying about his social ostracism
in line two. In an attempt to clarify for himself why he is in such a state he “
troubles” heaven with his “bootless” or useless cries. But as the poet has made
clear heaven turns a deaf ear and no response is forthcoming. Again he becomes
introspective and curses his fate. This firs ....
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