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Admin
01-02-2008, 10:10 AM
Sonnet #113

CXIII.

Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird of flower, or shape, which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch:
For if it see the rudest or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night,
The crow or dove, it shapes them to your feature:
Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue.

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Masud Mahmood
01-03-2008, 11:23 AM
The prominal shifts are tricky. Surely, Shakespeare is talking about half-seeing eyes which we have when we meet with indifference from our objects of love. The speaker could be in a state of self-absorption, his mind dwelling on the departed love. His eyes are not registering any complete images of the environment because he is still focussed on his lost object of love.