Assignment
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God BY JOHN DONNE
Batter my heart, three-person'd 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 usurp'd town to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd 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.
Who is the speaker talking to and why? What is significant/meaningful about the conflict that the speaker is experiencing? What is significant/meaningful about the paradox that the speaker uses in the last 3 lines? Use elements of poetry (imagery, symbolism, form, etc.) to elaborate. Do not look up anything online! I want your analysis from reading the work.