Sonnet 29 Isolation Quotes

The speaker comes right out and says that he's a social outcast (although, we're never really sure why that is). Just in case we didn't get how lonely he feels, he says that nobody feels any sympathy for his situation, describing himself as "I all alone."

In the first two lines, we learned how the speaker feels like a social leper. By the third line, he's all "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." In other words, he also feels isolated from God. His cries (a.k.a. prayers) go unanswered, and he's pretty bitter about it. And, he all but accuses God of being annoyed (or, "trouble[d]") with him. Plus, the fact that the speaker can't even come out and say God's name (he uses the word "heav'n") reinforces the idea that he is spiritually distanced from God.

Hmm. This poem is all about the speaker's introspection. Translation: He's consumed with himself. Is that why he's "all alone" and isolated?