Can i get some analyses, please?

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Can i get some analyses, please?

Hoogs10
New Member

since 1999-09-05

Posts 1
Riverside, CT USA

0 posted 1999-09-05 05:43 PM

COuld i just get some opinions on what this poem means, please?

Holy Sonnet XIV
by John Donne

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

1 posted 1999-09-05 11:39 PM

What? Do you have to write a paper on this? I love Donne. Try to figure out your your own ideas. There are tremendous possibilities here. Hint: I think it's about a fundamental contradiction in our human nature -- spiritual versus material. . . (what comes next?).

Have I given too much away already?

God, I love this stuff,

Brad

TheCandyMan_1
Junior Member

since 1999-08-28

Posts 38
NY

2 posted 1999-09-07 12:19 PM

If this is not just for a paper and just a work that you read and liked but were not sure what it meant...then you may want to read more of Donne's works. He is really great! One of my favorites being Elegy II. His works are a spiritual quest...and depending on your own personal religion and beliefs, could mean very different things to each person. Good luck on your own quest.

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©1999 JA.Malone

"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite - "Fool!" said my Muse to me "look in thy heart, and write!" - Sir Philip Sidney

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