Question

Deandra is trying to explain the major effect of the volta in line 9 of this sonnet:


When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, line 5

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state, line 10

(Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.


–William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29”


Which of the following explanations should she use?

A.
The volta signals a change in the rhyme scheme and meter.
B.
The volta summarizes the ideas introduced in the octave of the sonnet.
C.
The volta introduces a new idea that indicates a shift in tone from the octave of the sonnet.
D.
The volta introduces a new speaker who answers the speaker from the octave of the sonnet.

Answer 1

The Volta summarizes the ideas introduced in the octave of the sonnet is the following explanations she should use.

C.  The Volta introduces a new idea that indicates a shift in tone from the octave of the sonnet.

Explanation:

It proclaims that this delight achieved by an idea of the reasonable ruler is sufficient to persuade the speaker that he is in an ideal situation than eminence.

Here, "state" is a play on words: it conveys the significance of enthusiastic prosperity, as it did prior in the ballad, and recommends that the adoration for the reasonable ruler makes the speaker so cheerful that all the abundance of a lord would not be better.

In any case, it likewise alludes to a country or a realm. The purpose behind his change is the idea of having the adoration for his cherished.