In this sonnet, the speaker describes a powerful love for someone with no personal merits. Which lines describe this puzzling ab
ility in the speaker's beloved to control his reasoning faculties? Sonnet 150
by William Shakespeare
[O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With insufficiency my heart to sway?]
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
[That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?]
[Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,]
The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
O! though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy unworthiness raised love in me,
[More worthy I to be beloved of thee.]
The line in this sonnet which answers the question is this, "That in the very refuse of thy deeds | There is such strength and warrantise of skill | That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?" This describes this puzzling ability in the speaker's beloved to control his reasoning faculties because although the beloved has no personal merits, still the worst of the beloved exceeds all best in the writer's mind.
"That in the very refuse of thy deeds | There is such strength and warrantise of skill | That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?"
Explanation:
In the poem shown above, the phrase "That in the very refuse of thy deeds | There is such strength and warrantise of skill | That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?" it shows how the speaker is in love with someone who controls all his reasoning faculties, even without personal merits. In this way, the speaker shows himself to be stuck with someone who does not show a good character and personality, but that for the speaker that person has all the control of his feelings, making him love him anyway.
