Introduction: Talk about Cupid & His blindness, “love is blind.”
Thesis (articulate): Throughout Shakespeare’s 154 Sonnet’s there is a persisting love-triangle
struggle between narrator, young boy, and dark lady. Throughout the sonnets however there
exists another love-triangle struggle, that between the head, the heart, and the eyes. Through
Sonnets 46, 113, and 148 Shakespeare reveals the poets mental and emotional struggle in regards
to the throws of lover’s eyes. When there is love, there is always a love triangle between the
head, the heart, and the eyes.
Paragraph 1:
Topic Sentence: Shakespeare begins each of his Sonnet’s with powerful lines about the war
between not only his head and his heart, but his eyes.
Point: In sonnet 46 Shakespeare
Proof: “Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war” (46)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “Mine eye my heart thy pictures’ sight would bar, My heart, mine eye the freedom of that
right” (46)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “And thus: mine eye’s due is thy outward part, and my heart’s right thy inward love of
heart” (46)
Significance:
Conclusion
Transitional Sentence:
Paragraph 2:
Topic Sentence:
Point:
Proof: “Since I left you mine eye is in my mind” (113)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “For if it see the rud’st 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. “
(113)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue” (113)
Significance:
Conclusion
Transitional Sentence:
Paragraph 3:
Topic Sentence:
Point:
Proof: “O me, what eyes hath love put in my head” (148)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “love doth well denote, love’s eye is not so true as all men’s” (148)
Significance:
Point:
Proof: “O cunning love, with tears thou kep’st me blind Lest eyes, while seeing, thy foul faults
should find!” (148)
Significance:
Conclusion
Transitional Sentence:
Conclusion:
Topic Sentence:
Restate Thesis:
Conclude: The narrator not only struggles with the love triangle on the surface that exists in the
plot, but also struggles with the love-triangle that lies beneath, the battle between head, and
heart, and eyes.