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Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Rhetorical Devices

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In William Shakespeare 's sonnet 29, the speaker conveys the wrong with humans wanting to change certain aspects of their lives. Humans are always trying to improve upon themselves. To an extent this is a good thing, but sometimes it can have a negative affect on our well-being. The speaker in Shakespeare’s sonnet 29 further emphasizes this notion. William Shakespeare exemplifies how things always appear worse than they are by making the speaker in sonnet 29 realize that he should not wish to change things about his life in order to highlight the wrong with humans wanting to change things about themselves. In using diction, Shakespeare is able to develop the concept that humans wanting to change pieces of themselves is wrong.

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