A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 30"
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Sonnet 30
William Shakespeare
1609
Introduction
In Palladis Tamia: Wit’s Treasury (1598), Francis Mere writes that a man named William Shakespeare was known for his sugared sonnets among his private friends.
Though the melancholy tone of most of Sonnet 30
(first published in 1609) can hardly be characterized as sweet, the final couplet does have a saccharine quality that many of Shakespeare’s critics have found distasteful. After the speaker has been overwhelmed with sadness for twelve lines, can he really solve all of his problems and find happiness in a couplet’s time? Perhaps his friend is indeed his savior, possessed with the wealth, power, or influence to replace the speaker’s mysterious losses
(line 14). But the speaker’s quick and easy change of heart in the last two lines may be a sign that his grief is not as deep as it seems. Indeed, the sonnet’s difficult phrasings, heavy alliteration, and deliberate drag of repeated words lend a theatrical tone to his moans and sighs; the reader is left wondering if the speaker’s eye is, in fact, unused to flow
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