Question

In this sonnet, the speaker describes a powerful love for someone with no personal merits. Which set of lines describes this puzzling ability 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.

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

Answer:

That in the very refuse of thy deeds

There is such strength and warranties of skill,

That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?

Explanation:

In the sonnet 150 the speaker describes a powerful love for someone with no personal merits.

This depicts this bewildering capacity in the speaker's dearest to control his reasoning faculties in light of the fact that in spite of the fact that the beloved has no close to personal merits, still the most exceedingly worst of the beloved surpasses all best in the writer's mind.