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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Questions and Answers
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The speaker of “Sonnet 30” has a lot of sorrow, regret, and disappointment. The context of the poem's first twelve lines generally involves the speaker's griefs in detail, moving from frustrated ambition to grief over the deaths of "precious...
In the final two lines of 'Sonnet 30' the speaker transitions into the turn, or volta. This is seen through a direct address to a “dear friend,” the Fair Youth. Whenever he is as depressed as he described in the previous lines, he thinks of the...
Study Guide for Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought study guide contains a biography of William Shakespeare, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
