1. Clay Clemens Ty Kooser Aditya Kumar

3. Quartet 1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: When I am in deep thought I reminisce about the past I regret not doing everything I wanted to I regret wasting my time in the past

4. Quartet 2 Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: I cry, even though I normally do not My close friends have all died I even cry about things that have been resolved And mourn the things I have loved

5. Quartet 3 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of forebemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. I cry over things that have already happened I think about everything that makes me sad I recount things that used to make me sad I pay my debts for what I have done in the past

6. Couplet But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. But if I lament about these all the time, My mind will go to ease

7. Questions 1. What do lines 1-12 of this sonnet deal with? 2. In lines 1-12, what mood is the speaker in? 3. How does the concluding couplet change everything preceded it? They deal with the man thinking about and regretting what has happened in the past. Very sorrowful and depressed because of what he feels are failures in his life. It shows that this remorse and remembrance allows his mind to heal, not just make him even sadder.

9. Quartet 1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:

10. Quartet 2 Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:

11. Quartet 3 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of forebemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before.

12. Couplet But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.