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Read the passage.

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… For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. In Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare, how do the speaker’s feelings change from the first quatrain to the final couplet?

They change from idealizations to reality.
They change from hopeful to sorrowful.
They change from happy to cynical.
They change from misery to thankfulness.

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the answer is C ; they change from happy to cynical.


The speaker in sonnet 29 feels envy for the prosperity and good "fortune" of others. The voice indicates a state of misery at the beginning of the sonnet. This condition is expressed with the words "in disgrace", and "all alone". However, the speaker's feelings change from the first quatrain from misery to thankfulness. The speaker now enjoys the remembrance of the "sweet love" which "wealth brings".