After one has carefully comprehended Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 one gains a deeper understanding of what the poet was going through at the time and his positive affirmation towards the end of the poem. Sonnet XXIX is best described as one giant sentence but is in the usual Shakespearean pattern of three quatrains and a couplet. Throughout the poem one can see the worldview at the current time, imagery consistently, and a general tone. Some find it enticing to relate works to era's in the author's life, but it is unfeasible to compare specific dealings in the writer's life. It is to my understanding that rather than being in a state of melancholy the author ended the sonnet with happiness and a relevant purpose. .
One can see in the sonnet that religion plays a factor in the worldview more than one time. "And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries", the author feels that his mourns are not heard similar to Job in the Old Testament. The poet is going against the absolute power of God at the time in this particular statement. In the late 1500's early 1600's this is a very insecure and unfaithful view towards life in the Christian faith. The absolute power of God is present in Sonnet XXIX in line twelve. " From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" ; the phrase to me is taken as that the lark rises from sullen earth, and it also sings hymns which ascend up from earth to the gate's of heaven. The reader can see the author's reasoning and point of view at this stage in his life.
Imagery is continuous through Sonnet XXIX. In the first line of the poem " When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" , the reader feels that the author is stating when one runs out of luck and people tend to look down on them. .
Other imagery in the poem can be seen in line two "And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries", the viewer can see the reference being made to Job of the Old Testament at the time.
