Question

What are the differences and similarities between Shakespeare sonnets 29 and 30, and how do I know that sonnets 30 comes after 29?

Answer 1

The two sonnets written by Shakespeare has many different similarities and differences between them.

- Sonnet 29 comes after sonnet 30 because it had been believed that it was written in the same order which has been numbered now. Also 2 or 3 of the sonnets has a noticable continuation of the theme.

- Similarities between both the sonnets are that Shakespeare has started as dishonored, depressed and a pariah. In both the sonnets he has written about the sweet friends and his sweet love. In both the sonnets, Shakespeare has expressed on how his mood lifts as soon as he talks about them and that how he comes out of his disgraced feeling and feels light and relaxed. In both the sonnets the writer highly shows the high urge of friends. In one he craves for the possession of friends and in another he mourns for his precious friends.

- There are some dis similarities as well where in one sonnet he craves for the another Man's friend while in other one he speaks about the friends who are already dead. In sonnet 29 , the writer thinks that he is a pariah and that he is in that state and thinks that he does not have the things which other men have where as in sonnet 30 the misery is all about himself and to divert himself he tries to remember and live in the past where his life was beautiful.

In both the sonnet the writer 's mood enlightens when he realizes the presence of his loved one with him.