Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0230 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Sad" Means Grave
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The idea
Sonnet thirty speaks of telling over "The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan". Sad carries weight and seriousness as much as sorrow; a sad account is a grave reckoning. The modern sense is not wrong here so much as thin, and the question may test that difference.
In practice
Sad is weighty as well as sorrowful.
Where people slip
Here the modern sense is thin, not false.
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