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The poems “Sonnet 29” and “The Road Not Taken” reflect on the ideal life. Identify these common themes and describe how one of the poems resonated with you in a short paragraph. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep * my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless * cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply * I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Note * beweep : to weep over * bootless : useless * haply : by any chance, perhaps Reading for Writing 100 I Unit 4