Holy Sonnet I
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 14-04-15 10:46
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- Holy Sonnet I
- Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?
- weird meter. softer jambic after caesura .Before break hast and made = two stressed next to each other
- directly addressing God
- Repair me now, for mine end doth haste;/ I run to death, and death meets me as fast,/
- sense of urgency. trochee on now(?!)
- death is personified - they are meeting in the middle - unstoppable movement
- sense of inevitability but also a reluctant fear and panic
- I dare not move my dim eyes any way,/
- dim eyes = demise
- iambic pentameter exaggerates pun
- Despair behind and death before doth cast/ Such terror, and my feebled flesh doth waste/ By sin in it, which it towards hell doth weigh;
- death before doth cast, feebled flesh doth waste, towards hell doth weigh
- impending doom exaggerated by triplet
- heavy dental sounds
- he is surrounded by death = no escape
- scales - sin falls towards hell
- Only thou art above, and when towards Thee/ By Thy leave I can look, I rise again
- volta - you can do this
- like Jesus resurrected and redeemed
- starts with two trochees
- But our old subtle foe so tempteth me,/ That not one hour I can myself sustain;
- unification in shared hate of the devil - like Jesus...
- he's so weak - pathetic
- Thy grace may wing me to prevent his art,/ And Thou like adamant draw mine iron heart
- your goodness will redeem me
- his heart is not human, hard and cold
- adamant = magnet. But also the hardest metal the strongest substance
- critics
- Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?
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