Literary Analysis of Sonnet 29

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Subject Area:English

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He alludes to Job’s story (the suffering that Job went through when he was cast out, and prayed to God who wasn’t listening) as similar to his. The speaker says how he cries over his outcast state (Jimmi, p17). In line three the speaker uses personification when he gives heaven a human persona by implying it can respond to his cries. Similarly, in line 12 he refers to the earth as being sullen giving it the human characteristic that the universe too is dejected. in lines five and six he employs simile literary device which are comparisons amongst two dissimilar things. Shakespeare’s sonnet 29 illustrates his sadness through use of personification and similes. He uses the simile ‘like one to be rich’ and ‘like him with friends possessed ‘referring to how his state of deprivation being that he was without hope or friends.

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