First, the poet fights with love, and the end result is that Love reigns in his captive breast. The struggle takes more than a third of the sonnet, perhaps to show that the personal struggle with Love is the most important and hardest. "Clad in arms wherein with me he fought." One sense of the arms can be the physical image of cupping your hands over the heart as it beats wildly for wrapping your arms around yourself to console as your love causes you anguish. The emotion that Love brings fights with your will to compose yourself. arms are more likely to mean weapons in the historical context. Before the fight was only in an emotional, abstract level, now it means war. The fight is between an armed warrior and captive, it's no wonder the end result has "Oft in my face he doth his banner rest. The sonnet starts within his mind, "Love that live within my thought." and now it moves to the unattainable woman, "she that taught me love and suffer pain." There is a conflict between the hope and desire, the love and the pain that she causes. "My doubtful hope. and also my hot desire" could refer to the poet's hope, the poet's desire. or the lady herself as the personification of the hope and desire. Either way, the conflict is now separate from self and becomes the lady's reluctance to be in love. When "Her smiling grace" ook to shadow and refrain," the poet's love causes anger. The ambiguity leaves open to suggestion whether it i her smile that turns to anger, or her modest smile that turns the poet's love to anger. It doesn't seem to matter which field the poet fights with Love: he always lose