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Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
By William Shakespeare

Subject : The unreliable promise

Paraphrase : It seems like a clearly day, I go out with none of the cloak, the mist covers my way
and I have to be courage walking pass through it. It cannot be made up by lowering the smoke and
making all exhausted face disappear because the vapour still stick into my face, and if the medicine
would talk, it could not cure the shame and pity feeling inside, and even you know what you have
done wrong, the sadness still stuck inside. And because of the power of love which can pay for all
error at this time.

Occasion : spring, in the city and in renaissance period

Tone : sorrow, unreliable, guilty
Title : Someone who cannot do what he or she has promised to some other person. What he or she
acts is not the same as its solution.

Theme : The bad action could not compensated.

Speaker : Can be both unknown person and author

Shakespeare used symbols to illustrate the the feeling of people that once it has been
disappointed of someone or something, it could not be compensated by just making it better. Author
explained Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break, To dry the rain on my storm-beaten
face. (lines 5-6), the rain is the symbol of a mistake that someone have done to the speaker
which can be clarified that even trying to make things better by fix the error, the mistake still being
recored in the face. Moreover, as what author had said in the poem, Tis not enough the through
the cloud thou break. (line 3). Meaning even the cloud is broken, the face which can be referred
as the sorrow feeling of experience is still impressed inside a speakers heart. However, according
to the title of this poem which called Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day expressing the
idea of what is happening right now is not what we can see from our own sight. For example, author
explained To let base clouds oertake me in my way. (lines3), shows that even the sky appears as
it will be a beautiful day, the cloud appears to cover the speakers way which is the opposite of what
the speaker has seen from the sky because the sky seems like there will be a clearly nice day. On the
other hand, at the end of the poem, author said Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds. (lines 13-14), the word rich in the line shows how
much love that speaker gives to someone who is mentioned in the poem and also shows that tight
the relationship of these two person is. Because it said it can pay for all mistakes. However, most
symbols in this poem show that we can fix the error but cannot recover the feeling that has been
loss from the sorrow experiences.