Holy Sonnet VII
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 20-04-15 14:01
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- Holy Sonnet VII
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow/ Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
- at the end of the world = 4 angels at each corner of the earth
- moment of apocalypse calling people forth for judgement
- starts with two unstressed syllables creates a feeling of fear and apprehension
- lots and lots of plurals throughout
- sense of movement
- From death, you numberless infinities/ Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
- sense of confusion and loss
- All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,/ All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,/ Despair, law chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes/ Shall behold God and never taste death's woe.
- moments of judgement - biblical (noah maybe?)
- unnatural and unpleasant deaths
- dearth = starvation (lacking of things) agues = fever
- building up lists...why does he always do this?
- everybody coming before God
- But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,
- volta = STOP
- emphasis from caesuras breathing space
- For if above all these my sins abound,/ 'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace
- I need more time i'm unsure of my security
- When we are there; here on this lowly ground,/ Teach me how to repent
- is repentance Catholic? Not really - but its hard to repent without confession...
- for that's as good/ As if Thou'hadst sealed my pardon with thy blood.
- christ's redee,omg blood. sealed - papal/ ruler
- pardon
- christ's redee,omg blood. sealed - papal/ ruler
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow/ Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
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