2. About the author
William Shakespeare
• the greatest writer in the English
language
• often called England's national poet
•he wrote 154 sonnets
3. Information about sonnet
29
• it is first published in 1609
• it follows the same basic
structure as Shakespeare's
other sonnets, containing
fourteen lines and written in
iambic pentameter
4. Meaning of Sonnet 29
The speaker is overwhelmed by feelings of
unluckiness and self-loathing, and it is only
by a chance to remember of his beloved that
reminds him how lucky he truly is.
