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Clay Clemens Ty Kooser Aditya Kumar. Sonnet 30. Paraphrasing. Quartet 1. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:. When I am in deep thought
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Clay Clemens Ty Kooser Aditya Kumar Sonnet 30
Quartet 1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: • When I am in deep thought • I reminisce about the past • I regret not doing everything I wanted to • I regret wasting my time in the past
Quartet 2 Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: • I cry, even though I normally do not • My close friends have all died • I even cry about things that have been resolved • And mourn the things I have loved
Quartet 3 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of forebemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. • I cry over things that have already happened • I think about everything that makes me sad • I recount things that used to make me sad • I pay my debts for what I have done in the past
Couplet But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. • But if I lament about these all the time, • My mind will go to ease
Questions • What do lines 1-12 of this sonnet deal with? • In lines 1-12, what mood is the speaker in? • How does the concluding couplet change everything preceded it? • They deal with the man thinking about and regretting what has happened in the past. • Very sorrowful and depressed because of what he feels are failures in his life. • It shows that this remorse and remembrance allows his mind to heal, not just make him even sadder.
Quartet 1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Quartet 2 Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Quartet 3 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of forebemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before.
Couplet But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.