Download TPCASTT both sonnets on these sheets (TPCASTT chart is on my

TPCASTT both sonnets on these sheets (TPCASTT chart is on my
webpage for your reference). Use TPCASTT for inner/outer circle
discussion and timed writing (test). TPCASTT of both sonnets will be a
daily grade.
SONNET 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
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,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
“Sonnet 29”—Here the speaker describes how he rids himself of such ugly
emotions as envy, self-pity, self-hatred, and the dismal certainty that everybody
else is luckier than he is. Like many of the sonnets, Sonnet 29 is actually a single
sentence.
1. Name the traits of others that the speaker is envious of.
2. Which line carries the turn of the sonnet?
3. What remembrance changes the speaker’s state of mind?
4. Show how the turn signals a change in the speaker’s tone. What tone does the lark
simile add to the poem?
5. What is the effect of devoting so many lines in the sonnet to the speaker’s mental
problems and so few to their cure?
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
“Sonnet 116”—Perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, “Sonnet
116” contains an idealized description of true love under the metaphor of a
“marriage of true minds” (line 1). To such a love there can be no “impediments”
(line 2), a word taken from the priest’s remarks to the congregation at a Church of
England wedding: “If any of you know cause or just impediment why these
persons should not be joined together. . . .”
1. What metaphors does the speaker use to describe the steadiness of love?
2. Where does the speaker define love by what it is not, and by what it does not do?
3. How is time personified in the poem?
4. Between which lines does the turn—the change in moods—occur? Describe how the
speaker’s voice might change.
5. What is the function of the final couplet?
6. What single quality of true love does the sonnet emphasize?
7. How does the sonnet solve the problem of a disparity in the ages of two lovers, or the
death in one of them?
8. Do you agree with this definition of love? Explain.