Explication Essay-A Reading of Shakespeare's "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"

From the start, it is not difficult to figure out what the subject of the poem is about. However, unlike Dickinson's "There's a certain Slant of Light" which seemingly starts out upbeat and ends in an opposite fashion, this poem starts out dark and dreary and ends quite optimistically. Even though the poem starts out with a seemingly dark tone, it ends in an uplifting message. That message, in a nutshell, is simply count your …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…possibly the good things he has now, the character decided that he was not so bad off as he initially thought. The poem goes from a dark, downcast one, to a happy, somewhat upbeat poem with a lesson to learn and take to heart. The lesson to be learned from this poem is simply this: count your blessings and always see the good in life. Sometimes, the grass is not greener on the other side.