Sonnet 29 has a specific audience, a you, who is so loved by the speaker that even though he, the speaker, has many difficulties in his life, just thinking about the love of his friend makes him feel “wealthy.” The sonnet repeatedly uses images of wealth and status to describe his sad feelings. In Sonnet 30, however, the speaker does not describe his unhappiness in terms of an “outcast state” who desires what others have, as does the speaker in 29. Instead, he mourns lost friends and past times, and in general the sense that he is getting older. Youth seems to be the great loss in sonnet 30 and regrets for a life that he might live differently if he could, and so when the speaker thinks of his friend here, his “losses are restored,” which refers more to experience in general rather than the “outcast state” in the other poem.
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