Sonnet 141 also addresses the idea that love strips a person of identity. David West writes "In line 10 heart leaves to become a vassal slave of the Black Lady, a condition [Shakespeare has experienced already in Sonnet 133, and under the young man in Sonnets 57-8. What heart leaves behind is not a man, but only the likeness of a man, 'unswayed', under no sway, with no heart to govern it". Edward Dowden provides this gloss of lines 11 and 12: "My heart ceases to govern me, and leaves me no better than the likeness of a man - a man without a heart - in order that it may become slave to thy proud heart".