<P> Battle imagery is also rife throughout the sonnet . It describes a "mortal war" between the heart and the eye, with both striving for different aspects of a person and preventing the other from attaining what it desires . They clash over "how to divide the conquest of thy sight". In the end, the sonnet suggests that a truce must be made between the heart and the eye . </P> <P> Sonnet 46 is strongly connected to Sonnet 47 . The former raises the issue of the balance between the heart and the eyes, and the latter provides the resolution to this issue . As critic Joel Fineman writes, Sonnet 47 "rel (ies) on a verdict that is determined at the conclusion of Sonnet 46 ." While 46 focuses on the "war" between the heart and the eyes, 47 begins with the line "Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took", suggesting that a truce has been made and the war has come to an end . </P> <P> The third quatrain and couplet from Sonnet 47 emphasize the equality of heart and eye, suggesting that they are complementary . While they are different parts of the body with different desires, they both find "delight" in the same thing: the young man . Fineman writes that "the difference between outward and inward is secured and reconciled because the vision of the eye and the thinking of the heart can be harmoniously apportioned between the clear - cut opposition of the clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part ." In essence, they both want different parts of the same thing, and thus should function in harmony instead of in conflict . </P> <P> It is interesting to note that both Sonnets 46 and 47 uses the idea of a picture to describe the physical appearance of the young man . Sonnet 46 states, "Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar" while Sonnet 47 says, "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast". </P>

Summary of the poem sonnet 46 by william shakespeare