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,
The speaker looks upon his life, and sees waste and failure; he is cursed.  Fate is a frequently used motif in many of Shakespearean sonnets and plays. Fate also serves as a scapegoat and excuse for the futility and emptiness in the speaker’s life. It seems as if it is almost an indirect jab at God, questioning why his life came out the way it did. 
 An example is Othello, Act 3, “ … cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor ….”
Sonnet 29