Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
I think this line says that the narrator begins to think about someone else and starts being happy about himself since they have that person in their life.
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Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
I think that this line says that the narrator wants other's people features that he doesn't have.
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For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
The poem starts off with the narrator saying that he hates himself and how he's an outcast. After the turn, the narrator says that he feels so wealthy when he thinks about his love interest that he wouldn't trade places with a king.
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sullen
Sullen means gloomy or depressing.
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lark
Lark is a type of songbird
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And look upon myself and curse my fate
Unstressed:And, up-, my-, and, my. Stressed: look, -on,-self, curse, fate
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I all alone beweep my outcast state
Unstressed:I, al-,be-,my,-cast. Stressed:all,-one,-weep,out-, state.
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eyes,
The rhyme scheme is eyes(a) and cries(a), state(b) and fate(b), hope(c) and scope(c), possess'd(d) and least(d), despising(e) and arising(e), state(f) and gate(f), and brings(g) and kings(g)
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the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream
I think that he has been a great inspiration to many people and events throughout history.
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our national poet,
I think that he should still be considered a British poet since that is where he is from.
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“One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare,” he says, “is that his plays are not exclusively a national possession
I agree with this since many people all over the world have read his work.
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