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Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight

Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight

Update: 2023-03-26
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Sonnet 28 continues on from Sonnet 27 and develops the thought further, elaborating on the ways day and night appear to conspire to make William Shakespeare's struggling life a misery as he travels, away from his young lover. While it thus does not tell us anything that is in that sense new, it produces a layered internal dialogue that gives us a great sense of the poet's state of mind and disposition of heart.

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Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight

Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight

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