Batter my heart
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 20-04-15 14:47
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- Holy Sonnet XIV (Batter my heart)
- Batter my heart three personnel God; for you/ As yet knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
- starts with a trochee ends with a catalectic foot
- God the blacksmith must repair him through force
- Donne is noticeably passive
- That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me,' and bend/ Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
- furnace/ reborn from fire
- heaviness of repeated bs
- spondees
- he is currently prostate at God's feet wants to be able to rise.
- I, like an usurped town to'another due,/ Labour to'admit You, but O, to no end.
- again passive - left
- very disjointed very over dramatic
- Reason, Your Viceroy in me, me should defend,/ But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
- Reason is failing him - his mind is likened to a social system .
- Divorce me,'untie or break that knot again,/ Take me to You, imprison me, for I,
- *******, physical entrapment.
- seeks to be controlled and manipulated - fear of freedom because ideologically he can't maintain his belief in religion.
- Yet dearly' I love You,' and would be loved fain,/ But am betrothed unto Your enemy;
- he's trapped by a marriage contract. religious implications
- very human relationship
- Except you enthral me, never shall be free,/ Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me.
- quite surprising...
- Batter my heart three personnel God; for you/ As yet knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
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