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Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 Mood

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To some death is the end, but in the end, it is also the beginning. Shakespeare wrote many Sonnets about life, death, and love. Shakespeare's 71st Sonnet is one such Sonnet that focuses on these traits. In “Sonnet 71”, Shakespeare wrote of a man passing and his loved ones mourning him. In this poem, death is not an end, but instead a release, Shakespeare conveys this through emotional tone, the theme, and strange wording.
Shakespeare’s 71st sonnet is short, but it contains an emotional tone..In the first couple of lines, the mood of the sonnet is one of gloom and impending doom. It is gloomy because it uses words such as fled, sullen, and warning. In line four the speaker's tone changes from gloomy to angry. He calls the world vile and says

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