Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0814 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sonnet Twenty-Nine: The Situation
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The idea
The poem opens in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, with the speaker all alone beweeping his outcast state and troubling deaf heaven with his bootless cries. Bootless means unavailing, the shifted sense unit three trained. Heaven is deaf, so the complaint is going nowhere.
In practice
The complaint reaches no one.
Where people slip
Bootless means unavailing.
Your place on the trail
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