Contrary to Booth's take on the duality of Sonnet 35, Helen Vendler claims the dedoublement is most visible "in the violent departure from in quatrain 1 in the knotted language of quatrain 2." Instead of describing the speaker as divided over love and hate, she says that the speaker in quatrain 1 is "misguided, and even corrupt, according to the speaker of quatrain 2." She also disagrees with Booth's reading of the couplet. Rather, she related the contrasting voices in the first and second quatrain to a philosophical metaphor for the self. "I have corrupted myself" is a statement that presupposes a true "higher self which has, by a lower self, been corrupted, and which should once again take control. Even the metaphor of the lawsuits implies that one side in each suit is 'lawful' and should win."