“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”

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The speaker here is not a lover but a courtier in disgrace, complaining that the world has turned its back on him. The sonnet is often borrowed for the mood that follows a parting, when a private life suddenly feels exposed to other people's eyes.

Source: Sonnet 29

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