IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE
A coming-of-age travel adventure of a man of color who
flees Britain in the early 1980s in search of his African identity and
discovers the nature of his character through his experiences & encounters
the meaning of
life and love.
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,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented leaset;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’red such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
- William Shake-Speare—Sonnet 29
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,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented leaset;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’red such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
- William Shake-Speare—Sonnet 29
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