Speaker
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The speaker struggles with despair and bitterness
The speaker of William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29” is probably a poetic persona of the writer. The sonnet is written in the first person, which is clear already from the first lines: “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state,” (ll. 1-2). The first part of the sonnet focuses on the speaker’s depressed state of mind.
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