In the book "Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England", Mike Schoenfeldt examines the concepts of physiology and inwardness as seen through the works of Shakespeare, specifically in The Sonnets. Through Schoenfeldt's literary research, he reveals the interaction between "flesh and thought" during Shakespeare's time period. The dynamic that Shakespeare plays with in the "feeling" and the "form" of the sonnet portrays a "feeling in the form". He uses both the physical form and symbolic meaning of the sonnet art form. "Since mind at first in character was done" and "To this composed wonder of your frame." According to Schoenfeldt, Shakespeare's writing is trying to "wring meaning from the matter of existence". He is using both the physical "frame" and symbolic "mind" to convey his message.