The strength of his rational mind is not diminishing the pains of his emotions. On the
contrary, the speaker is losing his sanity as time progresses. In the past, perhaps, the
speaker's rational thought processes allowed him to cope with failed romances. However,
in the presence of this love for his dark mistress, all his logical mental abilities are
overpowered. His rational mind, which he depends on for truth and sanity, has left him in
the face of love. The torment of love has made it impossible for the speaker to make
truthful, objective observations about his world ("Companion to" 43). In this poem,
Shakespeare claims that it is love, not reason, that shapes one's perception of the world,
for one's mind, the ideal and rational judgment-maker, is subject to and overwhelmed by
the whims of emotion ("Companion to" 44). At the beginning of Sonnet 147, the speaker's
love is described as a fever, but as the sonnet continues, the effects of love......
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