Unit Tree, Lesson Four Portfolio

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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,
This line symbolizes how the narrator felt alone and cast out by society.
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
This line shows the narrator's hopelessness. He uses a metaphor to emphasize how he feels like he is cursed.
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
This line uses an idiom, which means the line cannot be understood through a literal translation.
With what I most enjoy contented least:Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
This line shows how he feels when he is alone and sometimes despises himself and his thoughts.
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state(Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings'.
This line shows how the narrator's attitude towards himself is slowly changing and he is becoming more optimistic.
This line connects to the theme of the sonnet. Love can bring optimism and hope for people who feel lonely and oppressed.