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John Donne- Holy Sonnet XIV
- Form and meter.
- Petrarchan sonnet.
- Irregular imabic pentameter
- Petrarchan sonnet.
- 'Batter my heart, three-personed God'
- The speaker wants to be beaten into
submission
- Powerful start- Demands attention
- three-personed God- refering to the trinity.
- The speaker wants to be beaten into
submission
- 'Your force, to break,blow,burn, and make me new.'
- 'break,blow,burn
- Plosives makes it more aggressive.
- Plosives makes it more aggressive.
- 'and make me new'
- The speaker wants God to make him 'new' suggest that he has
sinned. The speaker wants forgivness from God.
- The speaker wants God to make him 'new' suggest that he has
sinned. The speaker wants forgivness from God.
- 'break,blow,burn
- 'I, like an usurped town'
- Similie
- Wants God to take over him.
- Similie
- 'But i am betrothed unto your enemy'
- The natural selfish actions of humans means we are
'betrothed' to the enemy of God.
- The natural selfish actions of humans means we are
'betrothed' to the enemy of God.
- 'Take me to You, imprison me,'
- Wants to be imprisoned by God and his faith.
- Wants to be imprisoned by God and his faith.
- Divorce me,'untie or break that knot again ,'
- The speaker wants God to break him from his bond the Devil.
- The speaker wants God to break him from his bond the Devil.
- Themes.
- Faith
- Religion
- Faith
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